Holidays just don’t mean the same as you get older. All the beauty and pageantry of the decked halls, the holly and the ivy, the legion of Christmas specials, even the Yule […]
AT HOME WITH THE HOMELESS: Another Thanksgiving. Another Meal.
And now we have had Thanksgiving, the least commercial of all the winter festivities. Can you name ten Christmas songs? Easy-peasy. But try naming even one Thanksgiving song. The only one you’ll […]
Opinion: AT HOME WITH THE HOMELESS: Is Katrina Foley out of her mind?
Of all the people I ever thought to ask that rhetorical question about, Katrina Foley wasn’t even on the long list. Since her election to the Orange County Board of Supervisors (OC […]
opinion: At Home with the Homeless: A sort of homecoming
This issue marks the third anniversary of this column. To be frank, it started as my best attempt to make lemonade out of the lemons life started throwing at me in May […]
Opinion: AT HOME WITH THE HOMELESS: We need to talk about shelters again
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”–Andre Gide In the mid-September letters column for the Observer, John H. […]
Opinion: At Home with the Homeless: A Reflection on Newsom’s Approach and the Broader Political Landscape
Newsom’s redistricting plan is a necessary evil. His plan to clear California’s streets of homeless encampments is not. What are the biggest stereotypes about homeless people? That they are drug addicts, mentally […]
At Home with the Homeless: Housing First. Housing First. Housing First.
Also, from “s–thole countries” to “s–thole cities.” Now that my Google feed has been trained to fetch stories about the unhoused in cities around the world, two themes are emerging: first, despite […]
At Home with the Homeless: Fritz Lang’s “M” and Its Resonance Today
“M” was one of the first (1931) sound films made in Germany, and the first sound film directed by legendary director Fritz Lang, who had already had critical success with “Metropolis” and […]
Opinion: AT HOME WITH THE HOMELESS: Loving America with a Broken Heart
We’re at war with Iran. Donald Trump, unsurprisingly, has broken yet another promise – to not involve our country in foreign conflicts. As I write this, there is majority disapproval of the […]
At Home with the Homeless: Hypernormalisation is a thing we must not give in to
It’s tempting to say chaos is the new normal. Even those of us viewing with alarm the destruction wrought by the Trump badministration find ourselves, at times, so overwhelmed by the incursions […]
