On this Mother's Day, it is hard not to feel inspired and hopeful by the robust and sophisticated grassroots movement building of moms across America who have organized to fight for safer gun law legislation. And although disappointed by the lack political leadership on the issue, Mother's Day offers a...

Flirtatious emails. Jealous threats. Consensual sex. Scandalous? Hardly. Try... Foolish. Ubiquitous. All too human adult behavior. And frankly none of our business.

The real scandal is that this type of behavior -- stumbled upon via highly questionable investigative practices -- is what garners nonstop media coverage and glaring headlines...

It might disappoint you, as it does me, to learn that in America, one-fifth of the homeless population is composed of veterans of war, with approximately 107,000 homeless veterans sleeping on the street each night. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that in 2009, more than 136,000...

In the short-term budget agreement reached last week by Congress and the White House, $75 million in housing aid for 10,000 homeless veterans was cut. At a time when we're pushing American soldiers to the limit of endurance, we just pushed 10,000 of them out of safe homes.

What happened in Tucson, if you were there?

Seconds felt like an eternity for those on the scene; taut cracks of sound the human mind interprets as construction noise, random shouting and people in motion. Like a short, confined, devastating earthquake or tornado that struck for no particular reason...

The shots come night and day. Sometimes they take out the streetlights, leaving a lingering blackness that might not be remedied for days. Or sometimes they are in broad daylight, and sometimes an unsuspecting child, walking home from school or a teen hanging out with their friends is left wounded...

A special friend who works with me at HELP USA wrote this inspiring message for Mother's Day. It touched my heart and I would like to share it.

A Mother's Wish

Many of the Mother's Day Cards mailed this year will be posted, "return to sender" this year,...

There will be far fewer chimneys for Santa to squeeze through this holiday season as almost one million Americans have lost their homes and more people are living on the streets and in homeless shelters now than since the Great Depression of 1929. Jobs are scarce and the nonprofit community...