RIP, Cliff Carle

Some people are ringing in the new year in their party clothes and hats. I’m ringing in mine in my pajamas, wondering how to memorialize a man whom I haven’t seen in two years and whose death I learned of just a few hours ago. He actually died last week. But I can’t let this [...]

Finding Street Sense in a Walt Whitman poem

I took over as editor of Street Sense, a newspaper that covers poverty and homelessness in the Washington, D.C., area and is sold by homeless vendors for income, three weeks ago. My first editor’s column appeared in the July 15 issue and is reproduced below. ——- Celebrating Multitudes The streets were deserted outside Union Station [...]