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Cardboard Signs (Panhandling)

#45: "My job is to write about them as individuals so people get to know them as individuals."
Peter “Fish” Case interviewed me recently on his show “Vermontitude” which focuses on important issues in our town and region.
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#42: Give "Them" a Seat at the Table.
A Letter to the Brattleboro [VT] Select Board.
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#29: "There's No Success Like Failure...
"And failure's no success at all." [No Expectations #3]
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#28: How Does It Feel?
I think most people wrestle with their emotions when they walk by someone holding a cardboard sign—even though that sign usually includes the promise of…
#26: Second Shift.
Update on Isaiah:
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#15: Snapshots from the Street.
A woman came up to me while I was sitting outside drinking coffee. (If you haven’t noticed, I’m often sitting outside drinking coffee).
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#11: No Expectations. Part 1.
Illustration © my friend Echo Mars whose band Thus Love just finished their second European tour and is on their way to Brazil.
#10: Street Coin #2.
A few weeks ago, I came home to find a traveling street musician named Jerry playing excellent banjo on the stoop of my building.
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#7: It's a small town.
There’s a footbridge across the brook on the north side of the Co-op parking lot.
#4: "There you go asking questions again."
My friend Melvin’s business strategy is similar to that of anyone raising money for a struggling non-profit.
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