Living in a place like this

The woman walking in front of me is on the phone with her life coach. I know because I’m eavesdropping and feeling pretty smug about it. We are walking on a sidewalk in this shore town that is right next to the water — Long Island Sound, to be precise. I am enjoying the view. The woman is trying …

I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t grading something

I am three days from being done with the school year — if you don’t count finals which I don’t because then I’d be looking at a last day of May 11, when I am assigned to give a final at the last possible hour the school gives finals. Grades are then due…I don’t even know …

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Sal Pina (remember him?) was homeless for 20-some years, and then he got an apartment back in May. And yesterday, a nice guy named Ken made good on a promise he made when Sal’s story ran in the Courant, and he took his fellow Mets fan to a game. So this is what my friend …

Read this. And weep.

The New York Times carries this story about Ryan Hoffman, a former University of North Carolina lineman who is now living on the streets in Florida. The story makes much of the fact that football may have injured Hoffman, and set him on the road to homelessness, and that’s a damn shame. But I took …

In light of the bitter cold that’s strangling Connecticut right now

Bring ’em home and get ’em homes. It’s a pretty simple equation.

A closet at a homeless shelter

Earlier this week, I took a tour of  Columbus House, a New Haven, Conn., non-profit that works to move people from the streets into permanent housing. Part of their programs include a traditional emergency shelter, where you get a bed if you get a bed. That part is always full, just like the other shelters …