Saturday, May 17, 2014. Another deep med session this morning. Afterwards, I considered my upcoming (May 22) interview for a different...

From my diary: Thursday 2014-06-19. 13:30. In a recent column, Dan Rodricks mentioned Manna House, which I’d never heard of before. ...

Friday, May 16, 2014. There were a number of events at McD this morning that normally would have distracted me, and did not. This...

Today is my youngest brother’s 65th birthday, and a good occasion for me to pay tribute to him as an inspiration and role model. He’s six...

The job search feels like an endless exercise in futility. I recently launched a new hobby that may help me persevere. It involves the unusual tactic of seeking emotional discomfort. Background: morning glories are a pest in any garden. I got a lot of experience weeding them in the garden I maintained behind the house on Barclay Street. They’re highly invasive, grow fast, and display a Bolshevik determination to take over. Half a dozen vines 8-10 feet long can grow from a

Proverbs 29:18: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

Courage and despair hang in the balance for a homeless radio talk jock wannabe.

Teddy is an old man. He wears a rosary around his neck, and never fails to “testify” in chapel. “I talk to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost every day,” he says. Every time there’s an altar call, he runs right up there to get born-again — again. Five times a week, he’ll do that. He got barred out a year ago for selling someone oxycontin. Friday night 09/07/12, he came back. He insists to everyone that he’s never been here before, and said he wants to get into the program. Aside

(Originally published 06/11/13 at Trojan Horse Productions . Reblogged 01/31/19 .) Delilah: Radio Host Talks About Why Her Show Is so...

(Originally posted 12/26/12 at Trojan Horse Productions . Reblogged 09/06/18 .) A week ago today I had a highly successful interview at...

Positions applied to in April 2014: Administrative Secretary – Johns Hopkins University – Req. No. 60760 Secretary II – Salvation Army –...

Sunday 2014-03-30. I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that I submitted no applications in March. I have no excuse, but...

Update 02/28/14 here . ———— ♦ ———— Tuesday 2014-02-11. My prospect for the City job fell through this morning. Some may find this story...

(Originally published 09/06/13 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 07/13/17.) I keep telling them not to let guys sit on the bench in the shower buck naked. They don’t listen. So again, Friday night 08/30/13, when I went to put my stuff on the bench, here was this heavy brown smudge. I carefully avoided it, but I told the peacekeeper, Philip, since he has access to gloves, rags and bleach, and I don’t. He was texting. When I came out of the shower to dry off and dress,

(Originally published 07/01/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .) One of my buds came into McDonald’s this morning looking for me. I’d not...

(Originally published 06/06/13 at Trojan Horse Productions.) This has been a very heavy day, and there’s a lot here. For the moment, at least, I will not try to organize this. Darkness at times appears to serve Light; destruction, to serve creation. It is a rude awakening for me to have to revisit the world of infantile self-centeredness, apparently to have to re-learn correctly this time (at age 57!) some things I didn’t learn correctly on the first go-round. A world where i

(Originally published 08/11/12 at Trojan Horse Productions .) If you go into a men’s room and see that someone’s taken his backpack and...

Come to find out, the one thing I've most wanted to do, all my life — I AM doing.

A new rung on the ladder: Moments of unusual hardship and sacrifice.

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of poverty and homelessness. Getting out at the top represents a return to the normal life of the American mainstream. I didn’t start with a ladder in there, but I decided to add one to symbolize the various structures and tools that others have made available to me — and eliminate the possibility of clawing at loose earth.