Check it out! I am creating a new ezine calles A4TH Zine which will feature a homeless shelter of the month, two feature artist and space for 4 ads--that is FREE Advertising for my ezine. Why am i doing this? Because I want to do whatever it takes to promote homeless awareness in America. So if YOU are an artist and would like to be featured--EMAIL ME! If YOU have something you want advertised--EMAIL ME because I will do it for FREE! And if you want to be a subscriber...again EMAIL ME!

[email protected]

Just put int the subject line Mailing List, FREE Ads, or Feature Artists.

For the Feature artist I will need a brief bio, statement and two jpgs of your art.

For the ads, I will need 1-2 jpgs of your product and product description.

Featured artists and Ads will automatically be subscribed.

I am planning on making this a bi-montly blog meaning it will be published twice a month.

Let's do this yall!

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The first issue is out! The feature Homeless Shelter is Atlanta's own Union Mission and of course, I have the feature artists and my advertisers who are: Joanna Ballard and The Spotted Olive ( feature) and then there's Top Cat, Johanne, Dennis Baer and Weshon Hornsby.

I personally want to thank all of you who submitted art and advertising! Due to the amount of people, I have changed the amount of featured artists from 2 to 3 starting the second issue. On the website, the site navigation is on the top in small pring--well its small on this computer LOL, but I did aim for the biggest font possible.

In the second issue, Marc Doutherd, Johanne Jakobsen, and Richard Hubal will be the feature artists and we will have ads from The Spotted Olive, Joanna Ballard, Stacy Lynch, and Maria G.

http://art4thehomelesszine.tripod.com/

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I got the new site up and have added a Featured Poet and a Featured Musician whose song you will hear when you visit the site. I also have three Feature Artists who are Marc Doutherd, Weshon Hornsby, and Stacy Lynch! Also, be sure check out my advertiser's sites and comment on their stuff. AND I also have a page dedicated to you for your self expression: it has a chatbox on it so drop by and leave a comment on the chatbox!

Of course, I have not forgotten the homeless services--I featured some local ones that are SafeHouse Atlanta and also The Homeless Voice, and the feature shelter is Mercy Housing and Shelter from Hartford, CT!

So here is the link for you to check it out! http://art4thehomelesszine.tripod.com

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I am suffering from a broken heart. I broke up with my boyfriend because we just clashed. I mean, I am not gonna sit around and let the dude ask others out when he never even asked ME out and then he denied saying that to me. After he said it in front of my mom and one of her friends. Then he had the nerve to tell me that I have them under my control so they will do whatever I say. Then he says he is sick and that I could have helped him by doing yoga with him and encouraging him to study--I did that when I had time. Umm I was living on the streets, working part time, and doing my art4thehomeless stuff. So when I had to work was when he wanted me to hang out or whatever. He tried to get me to not go to work--wasn't happening. He also told his friends that I was abusing him...I never once hit him but I did cuss him out when he told me he asked another girl out. She refused because she was married by the way. I did myself a favor, though myself doesn't quite yet realize it. I wish him well, just as he says he wishes me well. Whatever. I am so through dating. No more for me. I will be single until I die. That kind of love does not exist in the real world--a lesson that I have learned the hard way.

Oh yea, he though it was funny that we were living on the streets--well he blamed Prozac. It's the pill's fault! The pill killed the lady in the green room with the candlestick! I saw it!

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Atlanta has this law--you cannot beg. I totally agree with it. I have lived on the streets and I didn't beg but I got the help I needed. The City of Atlanta is doing its part. They have inserted parking meters--well they look like parking meters, but they are actually donation meters for people who feel compelled to help panhandlers. What will happen to the money in the meter is this: it will go to shelters and other organizations that help the homeless.

The City of Atlanta needs to be applauded! If every city did this, people would be more inclined to help the needy without feeling guilty for saying no to a panhandler.

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Just in time for her birthday she received a nice sum of disability and treated me. I didn't get paid in time from my job but I am getting her a late gift her fave purfure L'air de Temps I think I spelled it right. Anyway she got a lap top and we have free wifi so I am online at home. It's a nice feeling not to have to go to the library and wait for an hour just to get on and once we get MS Publisher on here I can work on the ezine. We got everything but Publisher and now it seems we have only 60 days with the windows software before we have to pay or install another one. I am not sure how that goes but MS word has been telling me that I have to enter a 25 digit code to get in and that I can only access it without the code about 20 more times. Is that normal??? Oh, well, maybe we should just get photoshop. we did get nortan antivirus only to find out it was already installed but since it expires 60 days we are good. We went to Wolfgang Puck express for her dinner, though the guy forgot some of our drinks I guess, but everything else was great. The atmorsphere was not like home, but that is to be expected in the big city.

I am only working once a week now and that is killing me. I need more hours. I spoke to my boss and they said they would work on it but I am gonna bug em for those hours. I don't want to have to depend on my mom, I am almost 26 and should be making something happen for myself. It's hard because the economy sux, Bush sux, and there is something weird about Palin--I get this negative vibe from her especially with those pictures of her torturing wolves. What's wrong with these people? They want a wolf torturer in the office but want to arrest a guy for dog fighting. Maybe its a race thing-- Michael Vick is a black guy and Palin is a white woman. I still think its wrong. At least he apologized. It's a sad world where they let child molesters in the streets, have a vice presidential candidate who shoots wolves down for fun but messes up a guy's career over dog fighting. Wow. America is really fucked up. Thank God that my mom and I are okay.

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Now that I actually have access to the web, I am going to take the time to update all the links and create a webpage for them and list them in this order: By National and Directories, then by each HUD state. Since most of the links I have up are not working, I am not going to have individual Shelter links. I am also going to have them on the webzine as well as the blog so more people will have better access to the sites.

Also, I need poets, writers, and musicians for the next editions of October and November. If anyone is interested, leave a comment and your email and I will email ya.

Also to see the Art4TheHomeless webzine, the shelters and artists, poets, and musicians and also my folks advertising, go to

http://art4thehomelesszine.tripod.com

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Hello and welcome! This entry is for the brand new folks to Art4TheHomeless. My mother and I were homeless due to my job not paying enough for rent. We slept under a bridge where a murder took place. The killers walked right by us and we were blessed because we are still alive. She finally got her disability which enabled us to get into a place. For almost three years, she was on the streets while I was in Job Corps. Before that I was living in Louisiana when Katrina and Rita hit. My mother was in Atlanta doing well with her job. My landlord decided to kick me and a few others out because he wanted to make room for Kevin Costner's movie crew for the movie The Guardian. So I came to GA, joined Job Corps, my mother's legs started failing and she lost her job, lived in shelters then on the streets. Then I got a job, a place, moved her in, lost the job, got another job but this is part time, so I couldn't afford rent. We stayed on the streets again and that's when that shooting took place.


My friend, Beth, runs a blog in the UK and wrote about Art4TH so this is for yall who came from her site. I just wanted to say a quick thank you for stopping by and thanks to Beth for writing about me!

I want to give you the link to the webzine that features artists, musicians, and writers from around the world and also shelters and organizations that help the homeless and need help and volunteers.

http://art4thehomelesszine.tripod.com

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