Tag: Stories from the Street

Who are Santa Monica’s homeless? I get asked this question quite often. Who are they? In other words, is there ...

When someone asked me, “Hey, did you hear that Johnny’s gone?” I thought that he had finally decided to go ...

When Nancy was in high school she had dreams just like most other young girls. She was going somewhere. Her ...

Gregory’s smile was like none other. It’s mesmerizing. Gregory is a gentle giant in his early 40s. Big and tall, ...

It’s happened three times since Christmas. We have met three honorably-discharged Iraqi and/or Afghanistan war veterans that were homeless. They ...

Help comes in a lot of different ways for the homeless. Santa Monica has one of the best systems of ...

When Daily Press Editor-in-Chief Kevin Herrera called to ask if I would like to write a human interest story every ...