Special Transit, a nonprofit agency here in Boulder which operates vans for the disabled and also the HOP bus route, offers free bus service for residents of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Monday through Friday — leaving BSH at 8AM to 11th & Walnut downtown, then making the return trip at 5PM. This great [...]

This first ran on the DC letters-to-editor blog on 10/12/2009 and I wish that it had made it into the DC print edition, but here it is on my blog for your consideration now:
This past summer, I met a young man at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless one evening as I was waiting to gain [...]

I’ve been homeless since September 30, 2002. That’s the day police in my small hometown back in Missouri arrested me after my 1 1/2 year career as a white-collar criminal (beginning at age 45). A lot led up to that: The death of my older brother in 1987, who had been a surrogate dad for [...]