by House the Homeless | Jan 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Help the kids! Click to see the Kids 4 Kids Sake video, to take action, and directly contact the Presidential Candidates. Send the candidates the message to talk about...
by Pat Hartman | Dec 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
At Stone Soup Station, we find an eloquent description of compassion fatigue, which anybody who helps the homeless is prone to. It’s written by Veteran’s Services Coordinator Steven Samra, who puts together Operation Stand Down Nashville. Here it is: The...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
The bridge is frequently used as a poetic allusion to the meanings behind movements. Last week, House the Homeless talked about Bridge the Economic Gap Day, when people show up to demonstrate on literal bridges, and also about children experiencing homelessness. On...
by Pat Hartman | Dec 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Recently, Kathryn Phelan wrote about the tragedy that brought so many immigrants to America: Forty percent of Ireland’s population died in the mid-1800s, in the Great Famine. Men stole food, either to feed their families or in the hope of going to jail, where they...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Late in May 2015, frequent Huffington Post contributor Arlene Nisson Lassin wrote about the Memorial Day flood in her area of Houston that affected about 4,000 houses, one of which belonged to her family. A series of posts described 99 varieties of pain — from the...