All Entries in the "Writing Showcase" Category
Living In A Construction Zone – Part 3 – New Port Richey
Below is a series of pix of some of the work I’ve done while staying on Hemlock Lane in New Port Richey. I did quite a bit of work both inside and out, from painting most of the interior to accumulating over 25 huge bags of garbage, leaves and dirt. There’s still some work to [...]
Foreclosure: One of the Causes of Homelessness
It won’t do much good to write a blog on homelessness without exploring causes and cures. It wasn’t until I was forced to go homeless I begun to realize just how prevelant foreclosure was in America. As if it’s supposed to break our hearts even more, MSNBC reports greater than 8 million children affected by [...]
Jewel’s Testimony Before Congress on Homelessness
Many of my posts about homelessness carry the theme that the primary reason there is homelessness is because no one cares. Well, that’s not true. Many people do care. And the more that care, the closer we get to ending homelessness and poverty in America. Following is a video of Jewel testifying before Congress on [...]
Homeless Statistics Are Meaningless
In a recent Huffington Post article, homelessness is up in NYC. This article, and so many like it, are meaningless. It’s called the numbers game, and it’s played where ever there’s a social issue, from crime stats to homelessness to drug use. The people who compile these statistics and the journalists who report them are [...]
Living In A Construction Zone – Part 2 – Hemlock Lane, New Port Richey, Fl.
I am now in a 2nd house being “flipped” for sale or rental. Little by little I’m getting to know my “friend” better, what his goals are, and what I can do to help him in exchange for the help he’s giving me. This new house in New Port Richey is far less in need [...]
The Homeless Don’t Need A Home, They Need A Voice
The reason homeless people suffer is not because they don’t have a home. They suffer because they don’t have a voice. No one knows more about the limitations of words than writers. We–and obviously I include myself–understand how words are often used as labels. Being labeled “homeless” is like the classic Scarlet Letter. Homeless people [...]
The Myth of the Homeless “Community” Is Bigger Than You Think
Artwork borrowed from thedevilseyes.com They wander the streets of America like the zombies out of Michael Jackson’s video, “Thriller.” But make no mistake…the homeless are not a part of any community. Can’t imagine what was going thru the mind of some social worker, perhaps seeing a clump of homeless people huddled together in the underground of NY [...]
Living In A Construction Zone – Part 1
House in Holiday, Florida, where I’m doing work in exchange for a place to stay. For the record, the work I’m doing in exchange for a place to stay is the same kind of work I offered to do to ward off eviction. I also offered my services as a writer. I realize manual labor [...]
Bob’s Storage and Bowling Alley
The nite before before eviction: 3.13.12 The last place I slept outdoors before being rescued was behind Bob’s Storage, an abandoned building off Tarpon Ave. and Hiway 19 N. in Tarpon Springs. I was pushing the shopping cart headed back to the graveyard, when I passed another homeless woman who told me about Bob’s Storage. [...]
An End to Homelessness
Caption: ”Empty Shopping Cart” — Notice how happy I am? Moving that shopping cart around was a nitemare, especially with the animal cage bungee-corded to the cart. Each time I went mobile I had to throw something away. The most painful was giving up my racer bike. I just couldn’t move both at the same [...]
