I know she's well educated, but taking a course at a local college just for the joy of it is one way. I drop back in school every once in awhile to take a course I really am interested in, but couldn't take when I was going there full time toward a degree. So many young people are going back to school to get an edge on the changing job market. I'm talking adults of all ages, they make up about half the class at our local branches. Do something for fun where there is an abundance of men. Flying lessons. Learn to bowl. Join a bicycling group. Take up golf or go to a gym. The upside is lots of good exercise as a fringe benefit. Run for a local office or school board. It's the networking and exposure with other young, vibrant people on a repeated basis. Doing things you sincerely enjoy (or might enjoy) doing.

I was going to suggest that any of the canned items you give him should have the pop tops...unless you open them for him. There used to be a guy living under the freeway by DS's work and we used to pack him something just about everyday. Between me and my son he ate at least 1-2 meals a day. Turns out his wife and child were killed in an accident a few years before and he just lost it for a few months...depression and lost his job. Just gave up on everything he had going. He couldn't get himself together after that and ended up homeless and helpless. My son got to know him pretty well and took him food everyday, and clothing from time to time. He was really a nice guy. We gave him a one man tent which he appreciated in the rainy months. He refused alot of blankets and such as he had to move around alot and couldn't carry it all. He just disappeard one day my son said...no one seemed to know what happened to him after that. I do hope he found some help and got a job and a place to stay. You just never know what their story is and why they are the way they are. I too look at them differently after this man's story. Good for you CR for not turning him away. I figure if they are not asking for money then they are pretty legit in asking. I'll give food and clothing...I have a problem giving money..I'm afraid it'll go for booze and drugs. Dh gives money with no problem....he always says "whatever gets them through the day"...I wish I could see it that way.

I agree with Jackie. In fact one our friends up in Canada also agrees to the point that he issued the following after he got tired of the USA being bad mouthed. FW: A response on today's horrid event from a Canadian This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those." Stand proud, America!

Amazing! Just look at how well organized, displayed, and clean it all is! If I'm reading the date of the story correctly, Mr. Molina would have retired in mid 2015. I hope he still has access to tend to his wonderful collection. It does seem a shame that it's all there, but can't be viewed by the public. I can imagine a lot of people would appreciate all of those "trashy" treasures.