The Lady on the Basilica Steps
This article should just about write itself. It has all the elements to tug at the heartstrings like classic poverty porn. However, this is what has made it so hard for me to write. After more than 30...
View ArticleMartin’s Ground Beef Hash
Thursday, it was unclear whether or not we were going to be able to serve anything in the city on Friday night. I had spent $400 of personal funds to make the TKJ-mobile operational again. Our personal...
View ArticlePriorities
“How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?” – Francis, Pope of Rome
View ArticleTurkey, Kale Delight Soup
Someone just remembered to drop off his Turkeys ‘R’ Us turkey from November, this week. It was actually right on time. We had no meat in the freezer, so this week’s soup is turkey! I looked around for...
View ArticleOscar
I have recently started to paint portraits. I never knew I could do this. I don’t think I could before. Every attempt at art, other than on a computer, or with a blade of some sort to steady my hand...
View ArticleOther People’s Children: vignettes of joy & tears from unlikely people
I just published the first in what will hopefully be a series of books with my paintings and stories of our friends from the street, along with a few ringers, to remind us to be welcoming to strangers....
View ArticleThe Books Are Here!
Myron and me manning the sales table, just like old times! The first volume of Other People’s Children arrived at our house today. If you live locally, you want to save on shipping, and you want an...
View ArticleA Thank You Note Story
We called my grandpa Cranford Ingham’s third wife Aunt Wathena. She had been my dad’s legal secretary. She became my godmother at my infant baptism in the Episcopal church. She had grown up in various...
View ArticleRent Party on May 19! CANCELED
DUE TO UNDERWHELMING RESPONSE, THE RENT PARTY HAS BEEN CANCELED. THIS WEBSITE WILL BE DISAPPEARING SOON, AS WELL. ONE CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH DISCOURAGEMENT BEFORE IT BECOMES CRYSTAL CLEAR ONE HAS NO...
View ArticleBuh-Bye!
It has been over a year since we have served a meal on the street. The open heart surgery and the infections put an end to that. I finally had to admit that I am too at risk to circulate in that...
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