by Fred Eder | Aug 27, 2023 | Article, Essay
Housing is a Matter of Survival Someone told me the other day that housing wasn’t a matter of survival; it’s only a matter of comfort. That’s simply not true. Across 297 counties representing 61.9% of the United States population in 2000, we estimate...
by Fred Eder | Jun 25, 2023 | Article
I’m told that Jim Wright, of Stonekettle Station, said something like, “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, you can’t afford to go to war.” I had a friend send me an article in which she said that line appeared, but it wasn’t in that...
by admin | Mar 30, 2020 | Article, Essay, Nonfiction
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Graphic. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Rosario “Charo” Gutierrez) The world is a dark and scary place for many of us right now. A virus is spreading exponentially among us. We are seeing news of deaths daily. The number is always...
by admin | Jan 2, 2020 | Article, Essay, Nonfiction
Did you know that if you had a billion dollars, you could spend a dollar a minute, every minute of every day of every week of every month of every year for the next 1900 years? I looked it up. It’s much different from being a millionaire. If you’re a...
by admin | Nov 1, 2019 | Essay, Nonfiction
I believe it is difficult to understand poverty until you’ve actually lived it. Reading about it is usually insufficient. You can’t really understand it until you are hours away from homelessness. You don’t get it until you aren’t sure what...
