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The Human Face of the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis

Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, In : Public Engagement 


Suicides, divorce, anxiety attacks, depression, and displacement of children from homes and schools are not what we associate with the mortgage foreclosure crisis. But we should.  Instead of following the money, we should pay attention to the human side of the crisis.  

In this third year of the mortgage tsunami, while we debate about who profited and which federal agencies should have better monitoring, we ignore how people now choose between buying medicine for chronic illnesses and ...
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A Moment in Time...

Posted by on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, In : A Moment in Time 


It is great to have opportunities to just spring up in your life at any given moment.

I was able to stop, take a photo, and document a moment in time.

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Photo taken by Robert McIntosh

 

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