On Being Homeless in Old Orchard Beach, Maine
For nearly one year, the trees in this picture, were my home, and under them, I built what is now the famous "tent of Old Orchard Beach". Here is my story.

Care Packages For The Homeless
Homeless Care Packages
Care Packages For The Homeless was inspired by the many folks that were touched by my lens, Homeless In America. They want to know how to help the homeless. Here, I set out to show you how you can make a difference. Having done more research into the homeless plight, this lens gives you my current top five recommendations for what you can personally do for homeless people.

From Your Hand to the Homeless
How You Can Help Homeless People with a Personal Touch
In an often uncaring world it's important that we reach out to each other. You can give to the homeless in an indirect way (and you should) but giving and caring directly gives homeless people something beyond price - human contact and recognition. Perhaps the most painful part of homelessness for me was the isolation. At times I felt there was no one in the world that saw me as a human being. While I have a hard time with eye contact myself, I saw that no one met my eyes; they turned the...

Houseless Living: On Being Homeless - 5 Years Later - FAQs About Homelessness
From a house to a tent to a car to an RV. How 1 woman and 12 cats survived a flood and learned to li
Five years ago I created one of the first Squidoo lenses to ever be made, titled "On Being Homeless". It was also the very first homelessness lens ever built. I was newly homeless at the time I wrote it. A year later I wrote it's sequel "A Look Inside Life on the Streets". This second lens became one of Squidoo's top rated lenses and would go on to inspire many others to come forward to tell their own stories of life on the streets, enough so that Squidoo had to create a separate category "So...

FAQs About Homelessness: Fact vs Myth: Panhandling & Begging For Money
FAQs About Homelessness: What is the most common reply you get from people, when you ask for money?
I have been homeless for 5 years (since May 9, 2006). During that time a lot of rumors, gossip, lies, myths, and misconceptions have circulated about me and my current "lifestyle", I find these are the same rumors and myths which are spread about other homeless people as well. This Squidoo lens is part of a series of lenses I am creating to set the records strait and dispel those myths. The topic of the lens you are reading today, is: Panhandling, and begging for money. The exact wording of ...

FAQs About Homelessness: What Do Homeless People Want? What Do They Need?
My List of Things I Need As a Homeless Person
One of the top questions asked to and about homeless people goes a lot like this: What Do Homeless People Want? What Do They Need? What Can They Use? How Can I Help Them? What Should I Give? Someone wanting to help some homeless people in their home town once set me an email asking: "What are the top things homeless people need? Please write a list, I want to help some local homeless and I don't know what they need. What can I do to help them?" Did you try just asking them? Everyone needs ...

Homeless Index
Homeless Issues
This index is for listing the couple of articles I've done on the homeless. Homeless In America is a photographic essay that was in the Top 100 lenses at Squidoo for some time. It held the number-one position for quite a few days as well. It was the charity lens of 2009, and has been awarded a purple star. I've written one other lens about homelessness, and they are both listed here in this index. Along with them is access to the "homeless lenses" by fellow lensmaster, Kylyssa, who survived...