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Review of “Why Don’t They Just Get a Job? One Couple’s Mission to End Poverty in Their Community,” by Liane Phillips and Echo Montgomery Garrett, 2010. Highlands, TX: aha process. Cloth, 253 pages.

Interview with Kurt

The Scream: Edvard Munch's Intent

Review of “Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: School-Based Practice,” edited by Mayer, Van Acker, Lochman, & Gresham, 2009. NY: Guilford Press, Paper, 409 pp.

Reprint of article “Staying Clean: In Search of a Shower (and Dignity),” by Matt Hoffman, from “Speak Up,” November 15, 2022. Permission granted to reprint.

Jung’s Resonance in Russia

“Let’s Play a Game,” Claire Proposed

Review of “Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School," 2012 edition with new preface, by Pascoe, C. J. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Paper. 193 pages.

For and Against: Two Reactions to the Article: “New York City to Begin Hospitalizing Mentally Ill People Involuntarily,” by Herb Scribner, “Axios,” November 28, 2022.

Russian Refugee Crisis Overwhelming

Storytelling Still Matters

Red Line Trains: Unsafe at Any Speed?

Review of “Meeting Students Where They Live: Motivation in Urban Schools,” by Richard L. Curwin, 2010, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, paper, 168 pages.

Interview with Marty

Review of ‘The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life’s Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections,’ by Norman Rosenthal. Tarcher/Penguin. Cloth, 2013, 326 pages.

Review of ‘The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives,’ by Sasha Abramsky, 2013. New York: Nation Books. Paper, 355 pages.

Review of ‘That’s So Gay: Changing Homophobic Bullying,’ by Jonathan Charlesworth. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015, cloth, 182 pp.

Review of ‘The Man Without Qualities,’ By Robert Musil, orig. published 1930.

Little Edgewater, Big Crime

Review of “Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement,” by Eric Jensen, 2013. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 176 pp

The Homeless Excel as Excursion Guides

Long Live Libraries!

Review of “Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country,” by Thom Hartmann, 2011. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Paper, 227 pages.

Review of “Black Lake,” by Johanna Lane, 2014. New York: Hachette. Paper, 217 pages.

More Volunteers Are Attempting to Assist the Scottish Homeless

Little Edgewater Library, Little Edgewater Luck: Harassing the Homeless, Again

Review of “Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America,” by Danielle T. Raudenbush, 2020. Oakland: University of California Press, paper, 171 pages.

Vlad the Impaler: Hero, Vampire or Murderer?

Food for the Dead? Or for the Homeless?

Toše Proeski, great musician

Dispersal Doesn’t Work

Being Homeless Is a Pain in the _____.

Review of “Invisible Nation: Homeless Families in America,” by Richard Schweid, 2016. Oakland: University of California Press, paper, 185 pages.

Don’t Speak Your Native Tongue!

HUD Continuum of Care Supplemental Grants to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness

Homeless Encampments: What’s In a Word?

Important Vaccines for Homeless Persons

Is the American Dream a Prison?

Review of “The Memory Police," by Yoko Ogawa, 1994, reprinted 2020. Translated by Steven Snyder. {London: Penguin-Random House}

Interview with Abel

Review of “Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education,” 2d. ed., 2012,by Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo, New York: Teachers College Press, paper, 244 pages.

“Fresh Start,” Speak Up, August 26, 2022. Reprinted in toto with permission.

“The Struggle Is Real: So Is God,” Speak Up, June 24, 2022. Reprinted in toto with permission.

Go, Move, Shift: The Same Old Story!

Care for Real and Casa Central Seek Volunteers

Bad News is Worse than Planned: Number of Homeless Children is Up

Review of “Burning,” Film, 2018. Co-written, produced, and directed by Lee Chang-dong. Stars Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo. Distributed by CGV Arthouse. Korean, English subtitles

Review of “Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns,” by Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern, 2022. Oakland: University of California Press, paper, 268 pages

Fairy Tales Are for Everyone! The Lost Legacy of Hans Christian Andersen

Homeless and Related Terms on Both Sides of the Pond: American, British and Scottish Words

My Reaction to the Article: “Unable to Recruit New Cops, City Using Pandemic Bail Out Cash to Hire Private Security,” News-Star, August 10-16, 2022, vol. 118, number 32, pp. 1 & 12.

Men and Women Need the Monkeypox Virus Vaccine ASAP!

A Troubled Legacy: McDonald’s Withdraws from Russia

Homelessness Set to Soar

Interview with Henry

“Mutual Aid Chicago” and “Care for Friends”

Review of “With Honors,” Film, 1994. Directed by Alex Keshishian. Stars Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly, & Joe Pesci. Warner Brothers Pictures.

Traveling in Street Cultures

Who Was to Blame? The Burning of Moscow in 1812

Comfort Creatures

Have Attitudes Toward the Homeless Improved? Is it a More Humane Moscow?

"Stand Down" Grant Program to Help Veterans

Interview with Clinton

Thinking beyond the Box: Noam Chomsky

Grants for Health Centers Providing Services to Homeless Persons

Hide and Seek: Where are the Homeless?

Review of “Gran Torino,” film, 2008. Written by Nick Scheck and Dave Johansson, Starring Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, and Christopher Carley, Directed by Clint Eastwood.

A Distant Dream!

What’s Happening with Your Apartment?

McStolen & McStupid

Interview with Tre

A Taboo Topic: Don't Speak about the War

Review of “Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness,” by Brandon Andrew Robinson, 2020. Oakland: University of California Press, paper.

“Homeless in Charleston: Part 3,” Speak Up, May 23, 2022. Reprinted in toto with permission

Things Heat Up In Little Edgewater

A Bitterly Contested Controversy: George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

“Homeless in Charleston: Part 2,” Speak Up, April 6, 2022. Reprinted in toto with permission

Transitional Living for Homeless Youth: A Federal Grant Opportunity from Health and Human Services (HHS)

Walking the Tightrope: "The rug was pulled from under my feet!"

Why Tiny Houses Are Not the Solution

The Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program: A Federal Grant Available from HUD

Stupid Comments Made to Homeless Persons: Foolish Games

My Life with Alcoholism

Housing First: Longer-Term Benefits and Costs

Unwanted Attention!

Violence & Crime in Little Edgewater

A Major Healthcare Crisis—Is It Being Addressed?

Review of “Where God Left His Shoes,” Film, 2007. Directed by Salvatore Stabile. Stars John Leguizamo. Vulcan Productions.

The Day of Victory: With War Some Are Homeless Forever

Review of “Coming Up for Air,” by George Orwell, 1939, 2021 Printing. London: Oxford University Press.

The Poet Who Moved Mountains: The Living Legacy of Mother Maria of Paris

Interview with Sam

Noticing What Matters: How Some Followers of the Russian Orthodox Church Are Attempting to Assist the Homeless

Review of “Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better,” Edited by Carolyn J. Heinrich and John Karl Scholz, 2009. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Paper, 348 pages.

Who Are The Chicago Homeless?

Mindfulness Might Work

“Three Friends That I Have Lost,” Speak Up, April 21, 2022. Reprinted in toto with permission.

Review of “The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life’s Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections,” by Norman Rosenthal, 2013. New York City: Tarcher/Penguin. Cloth, 326 pages.

Eat or Heat? Unprecedented poverty is soaring in a "disunited kingdom" which seems on the brink of recession.

Interview with Johnny

Appearance as a God

Review of “Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor,” by Catherine Paden. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011, paper, 232 pages.

Mentors Educating Those Who Help the Homeless

The Great Ghost Disease

Review of “Stone Pillow,” 1985. Starring Lucille Ball. Film, Directed by George Schaefer, USA.

Review of “Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America,” by Ella Howard, 2013. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Cloth, 276 pages.

Review of "The Chicago Underworld," (Original title: "Gem of the Prairie") by Herbert Asbury, 1940. New York: Ace Books, paper, 292 pages.

What’s in a Name? The Never-Ending Riddle of the Hobo

Review of "Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It," by Heather Boushey, 2019. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, cloth, 257 pages.

Homeless Health

SGUIR DHETH: STOP FIGHTING!

Swollen Legs and the Homeless

Review of “Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansberry. New York: Vintage Books, 1958.

Interview with Janie

Signing Your Way into the Streets: How So Many Russian Homeless Have Been Cheated out of Their Homes

Review of “Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine,” by Damon Tweedy, 2015. New York: Picador. Paper, 245 pages.

"I Am Vince: Ten Days in my Life as I Fight Homelessness and Addiction," Speak Up, January 26, 2022. Reprinted in toto with permission.

Review of "One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity," by Debbie Macomber, 2009. New York: Howard Books, Div. of Simon & Schuster. Paper.

Eleven Seconds to Homelessness!

Pantry Party: Is It a Good Country?

Interview with Cole

Five Years Homeless Without Any Reprieve

Estimates of All Types of Homeless Persons in Chicago

Book Review: “Poverty in America: A Handbook,” third edition, by John Iceland, 2013, Berkeley: University of California Press. ILASCD website, October 3, 2017.

“Hardcore Homeless” and Other Terms

Songs for the Forgotten: The Role of Nursery Rhymes

Don’t Bully Us! How to Better Assist People with Mental Health Challenges

Encampment and Encroachment

A Japanese "Catcher in the Rye?"

Homeless Numbers in Chicago and Some Other Cities

Helping the Homeless Survive Crime

Anti-Homeless Bill Halted in Britain!

Review of "The Other America: Poverty in the United States, by Michael Harrington,” 1963, paperback. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books.

MLK, Jr., Food Stamps, and Racism

Reaction to: “Homeless in a Pandemic-Stricken Chicago,” by Sarah Gelbard. “Chicago Reader,” January 14, 2022.

Discharged onto the Streets: A Scottish Example

A Priceless Legacy

Some Advice for Food Pantries Serving the Homeless

"700,000 US Teens Navigate School Without Family Support or Permanent Housing:" New Article on Homeless Youth Provides Excellent Facts and Data

An Honorable New Year’s Goal

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