Naperville, IL, one of the best cities in the country, has again grabbed headlines for extraordinary accomplishments. James Holzhauer, a product of Naperville’s excellent school systems, just captured Jeopardy’s Masters championship, raking in a cool half-million for his brainy abilities. …

It's no wonder that so many of the kids I meet love school. Their homelessness has lots to do with that, and I suspect childhood trauma in addition to homelessness. That makes fighting for their school stability worth it.

News media, politicians, and others jump on displaced Budgetel occupants while calling on the Lord to come down and save these lost souls. — If a Chattanooga area tornado wiped out the Budgetel on November 16, 2022 displacing the 800 or so occupants, a humanitarian disaster would have been declared and every effort would have made to help people find housing, food, and supplies. Undoubtedly, some would praise the Lord and think that those…

Speed limits. Lane limits. Weight limits. Time limits. Height limits. Data limits. Some I can live with, this I can’t. Everywhere we look we’re limited. But I usually can comply, if I trust that the limit is for the greater good. As a nonconformist, I get frustrated with what I deem to be false limits, or limits that profit the limiter at my expense. Like data limits. My latest run…

Adam, I loved reading that post! You translate the gobbly-gook into human speak. I've been pondering the super power concept as I reflect on my own early experiences. Now it makes sense. And makes me happier (and I've always been relatively happy). When I get asked to make sense of someone's bad behavior (working in the world of homelessness this happens a lot), the Lizard, Mammal, Human brain functions is my go-to, now with terms I can remember. And the 4 Ss--Safe, Seen, Soothed, and Secure--is the whipped cream on the sundae.

Transforming those hard to spell/pronounce names of our brain functions into Lizard Brain, Mammal Brain and Human Brain gave my fuzzy brain hope that I can at least remember those terms when I'm trying to describe brain functions. The rest of your post was golden, too!

Motels evict, gouge; tent/RV camping sucks, and kids suffer the most, but we don’t ‘shiv-a-git’ — As summer rolls around, one group of motel-dwellers will feel the heat the most — families and individuals who’ve lost housing. Motels/hotels welcome tourists in summer, so they want to get rid of the “riff-raff” using these accommodations as a substitute for housing. In every community, if you look beyond…

My ‘Home-less’ 18 Years Ended, My Efforts Continue — May 1, 2023 …marks a milestone for me! For the first time in 18 years I have a home address! I left Illinois (no hard feelings!) after living there since 1969. My new home state, NC, isn’t new to me since I’ve been staying here off and on with family/friends since I hit…

Connecting Poverty, Homelessness, Trauma and Death — Death. Not a particularly upbeat topic when talking about children, but one that needs attention to change — improve — the trajectory of children’s lives in America. …