Tag: Poverty

I'm all jazzed out. It's month number three of unemployment. The past three days, I've been wet. The past three days, it's rained. A weary, dreary, gusty unnatural rain, coming…

This is for those who call us "takers," the Paul Ryandom of America species. Try it sometime, if you dare. Lose that job - the part time pseudo-professional position that…

That's how my mind runs nowadays. The past tense. As in, "She was a creative person," or "She had such initiative." Third person references. Divorced from actuality. Passive extremus. What…

I think in numbers. Today is week number two of unemployment. Tomorrow, I am hopeful I will have a final paycheck deposited in the bank. It will be for half…

I'm charmed by the philosophy of lists. They keep my day organized. Well, at least from that first moment these daily agendas pop up on my Google calendar. Handwritten lists…

When I lost my full time job back in 2010, I migrated to the internet, one of the relatively few locations available for the entrepreneur to set up shop with…

The New Year started with a fellow banging on my backdoor. I was in my office, huddled around the first coffee of the day, still in my flannel pjs, just…

I own an older Honda. It's a gift vehicle and everyday, it moves me from place to place with a few grumps and grinds and a long gallon of gas.…

Sometime during the Tavis Smiley discussion on poverty, one of the panelists noted that the middle class is becoming the new poor of America. Another panelist urged the poor to…

It's not a good thing to turn on TV early in the morning.  This is especially so when you have limited cable access. What shows up on the screen is…

I've seen four instances in less than 24 hours. This seem enough to call it a trend. The first sighting was yesterday afternoon, in the grassy median of a busy…

My first encounter with the displaced was in the summer of 1980 at the end of the trolley line in San Francisco. He was an angry man. An evangelist for…

There's a new twist to public panhandling. The neighborhood scam artists are becoming more creative. Is it because the competition is stiffer? I mean, think of the expanding numbers on…