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my how time flies.

4 May 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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and now a few words about public assistance

5 Apr 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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Obituary Thoughts

5 Apr 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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Do Numbers Matter?

7 Mar 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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The Charm of Lists

21 Feb 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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Lemons to Lemonade: Squeezing back poverty

25 Jan 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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Ransomed Living: The $927.11 Water Leak

22 Jan 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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The Worth of Small Change

20 Jan 20131 Jan 2019
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.…
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The Nouveau Poor

18 Jan 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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Churning the Bucks, Turning my Stomach

14 Jan 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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Beggars on Bikes

14 Jan 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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Street People

1 Jan 20131 Jan 2019
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…
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A More Articulate Panhandler

31 Dec 20121 Jan 2019
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…
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