Earlier this week, I met a young woman who had her two and a half month infant daughter with her.

In her late twenties, this young mother mentioned that she and her daughters’ father were living with his parents. He had lost his job just shortly after she had become pregnant and they had taken them in.

Fortunately this young man has been able to re-acquire employment. It doesn’t pay as much as his previous job – which more and more lately seems to be the trend. Folks who find themselves unemployed will often times discover that the only new job they can find doesn’t pay anywhere near what their previous position did.   Read the rest of this entry »

Over the last 14 months of writing this blog, I’ve done quite a bit of research regarding homelessness. I’ve also kept watch on various other blogs and news sites regarding homelessness.

This morning I came across a posting from the beautiful island state of Hawaii.   Read the rest of this entry »

Have a few pounds around the middle you’d like to get rid of? Diet not working as well as you’d like it to? Even with the diet, does it seem like you’ve eaten one too many donuts?

As it turns out, you may not have to spend big bucks to lose weight. There is something simple to minimize your chance of gaining weight.

Get some sleep.   Read the rest of this entry »

When I stepped out to grab lunch, I saw a family who, based on the amount of personal items in their mini-van, were probably homeless. That sight caused me to start thinking along certain lines.

Homelessness creates different types of casualties. But it doesn’t afflict only single people. It also afflicts families; single and two parent families with dependant children.

The effect that homelessness can have on inter-family relationships can only be guessed at. But there is no doubt that it can – and does – create an undue amount of stress among family members. Even under the best of circumstances, relationships take work, but to heap the struggles of homelessness on top of that – with all of its precarious and unknowable circumstances – can leave families in shambles.   Read the rest of this entry »

Several months back I found myself receiving almost daily emails from a gentleman named Carl. The emails he’d send contained links to news articles about homelessness from various news sources through out the nation. When I inquired how he was coming up with all of these links, he wrote back saying that he was getting them through custom "news alerts" via the Internet.

I wanted to slap myself on the forehead for not thinking about signing up for news alerts – but better late than never, right? So I signed up and started receiving these alerts sent directly to my email account.

There is one that I received a couple of days ago which really is one of those stories that makes you say to yourself: "Now, how cool is that?"   Read the rest of this entry »