Category: housing

Keep Your Nose Clean

Posted in college, house, housing, law, lawlessness, looters, memoir, middle class, Nebraska, Omaha, renters, rules, societal rules, student, student loans, young adultLeave a comment

(re-run from 2021) When I was a young adult, this expression was a warning to us to straighten up and fly right – to stay out of trouble. It was said to young men more than it was said to young women, but it meant that things would come our way if we followed the… Continue reading Keep Your Nose Clean

Stigma Attached to Helping the Homeless

Posted in Berkeley, California, chorus, Fruitvale, Hayward, homeless, housing, Oakland, pizza, San Jose, Silicon ValleyLeave a comment

I have twenty bags of stuff for the homeless people in Hayward. The news reported last week that there are 500 people on the streets there, way up from last year. I asked my chorus to donate. Thank God all 130 of them didn’t do it. My car is full. At a chorus program-stuffing party… Continue reading Stigma Attached to Helping the Homeless