Okay, come Thursday thousands, if not millions of people will get up and head down to their local homeless shelter to help “feed the homeless.” There will be more volunteers and people wanting to help than there are homeless people on Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s suddenly very hip and cool to care for the less fortunate on the holidays.
But while the 20% of the homeless and those who are down on their luck may crowd the shelters this year, there are millions of homeless and impoverished people who won’t, …

It’s been a little over nine years since I’ve been here. And back then, this place was a dry cleaners. For the past nine years or so it’s been a hot little coffee shop called “C’Ville Coffee.” It ranks as the TOP coffee shop I’ve ever been in. The owner, Toan Nguyen, not only greets you when you walk in, he has a conversation with you, finds out what brought you here. Very friendly guy!
When I explained my “year long adventure,” and told him I was writing and posting about …