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 …

Christopher Scott Emmett was convicted in October 2001 of the April 27, 2001, capital murder and robbery of his co-worker, John Langley, in Danville, Virginia. On November 2, 2001, Emmett was sentenced to death. On May 30, 2007 I received word that I was one of the media selected to view Emmett’s execution on June 13. How does one prepare to view and cope with an execution? This is my journal of that journey. My thoughts about this are not right or wrong, they’re simply mine.
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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’ve got to have this or I’ll just die!“ she wailed. For ten minutes this seven-year old grabbed things off the shelves at Target and repeatedly, almost non-stop, said, ”I’ve got to have this or I’ll just die. I’ve got to have THIS or I’ll die.“ She only stopped long enough to look at her mother with her hands on her hips and demand, ”Do you WANT me to die? Don’t you understand I’ll just die if I don’t get this?!“ I couldn’t stop laughing, so I turned and …