TheGoodMuse

 Few green spaces exist around Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.  Grimy gray buildings, tents of the homeless, and barbed wire fences are the most frequent sights. Grocery stores and vegetable markets are rare because quickie marts and liquor stores monopolize ...

Sitting behind cardboard “privacy screens” answering personal questions about my sex life is not exactly comfortable, but this particular volunteer activity – giving blood – is not about comfort. The part I dislike the most, the dreaded finger prick, will ...

What happens when a building dies (aka is abandoned)? In most cases it’s demolished and tons of usable lumber, bricks, and metal become trash in our landfills. According to the reuse advocacy website Waste to Wealth,“The construction and demolition (C&D) industry ...

I know what I was expecting. I envisioned myself majestic like Meryl Streep in “Out Of Africa.” Wandering through vast green fields, smelling the harvest, and looking fabulous while assisting in the cultivation of produce. The reality: I find myself ...

Ryan C. Farrell pulls out his hair, repeats things other people say, and stretches his mouth till it develops sores. For Ryan these impulses are uncontrollable, he has Tourette syndrome and in his words, “There aren’t many people that are ...

According to the United Nations, 25,000 people die of starvation everyday; 16,000 of them are children. That’s one child every 5 seconds. Amidst these horrifying numbers, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Africa “are fast being pushed towards severe ...

More puppies should be sent to jail. I say this as an animal lover and someone who realizes our prisons are already bursting with inmates. So why crowd prisons further with dogs? Because people both inside and outside of “the ...