I still have to sign the contracts, get my marching orders and the usual stuff you do when you get a new job, but I’ve just become a hired blogger. It looks like I’ll be writing once or twice a week for Change.org’s website on homelessness. I’m joining a great staff, most of whom, I noticed – are from the west coast and upper east coast. There’s one other writer from Northern Virginia (Arlington), but I didn’t see any writers who hail from the south. Whew! All the more topics …

Jay Schafer is ready to go to jail to defend America’s right to live in a small house. Seriously. For nearly 14 years this founder of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses has led what he calls “My aggressive pacifist’s campaign to make the built world a smaller place.”
He’s been on Oprah, led seminars all over the country and been active and serious about a very serious issue – housing – the third most common cause for homelessness in America next to addiction and mental illness.
To date, Jay’s approach has …

I really enjoy reading other people’s blogs. And one of my favorites is Peggy Pepper Wilkerson’s blog. She recently asked her readers if Self-Love was Self-ish. Her answer was “No.” She says, in part:
“… not loving and caring for ourselves first, is the fastest path to one of the biggest and most insidious, self-destructive traps we can fall into—-also, seemingly unique to women. Martrydom. I know you know what I’m talking about. So, when’s the last time you loved being around a martyr? All that self-less-ness, …

(photo from Change.org website).
In some Choice Hotels in America, children are being forced into prostitution. According to Change.org, the Choice Hotel Chain and other hotels across America, may be “unintentionally facilitating this prostitution by ignoring this growing problem.”
Vandwellers face dangers living on the streets, but nothing like the children of drug addicted parents and hotels who don’t care what goes on in their chains, face.
Change.org says “The recent tragedy of Shaniya Davis’s rape and murder, part of which took place at a Comfort Inn in North Carolina, …