Homeless Gift Guide Video!

Time to sip a little hot cider, put the old dogs up, lean back and let the Doc Gurley high-velocity-contortionist-shopping team take you on a whirlwind tour of the best Treats for the Streets! With real-time, gold medal caliber performance-gifting (and a guest judge commentator!). Let the holiday mood take you!

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Doc Gurley Second Annual Homeless Gift Guide

Ahh, there’s nothing more fun, or easier, than shopping for holiday gifts for the homeless (rub palms

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together with glee). And believe me, this kind of statement is strong praise indeed, coming from someone with a near-lethal shopping allergy (hey, I’ve been tempted to put it in my medical […]

The 12 Days of Urban Christmas

Wondering how exactly a small act can result in a permanent change in your worldview? Read on to see how it can work:

On the first day of urban Christmas, a street bum said to me, “Got any spare change, buddy?” But I’m not a

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cash hand-out kind of […]

5 Reasons To Give A Gift To A Homeless Person

So it’s 11 days to Hanukkah, 2 weeks to Christmas, 15 days to Kwanzaa. Welcome to the first of three related

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posts – here are the top five reasons to give at least one personal gift to a homeless person this holiday season:

#5) No one’s easier to buy for. It’s the […]

Five Things To Do For Your Health This Month: December

December is loaded with health significance – it’s the end of the calendar year, which is a time of reflection for many of us. It’s also a month packed with holidays, emotion, stress, and, often, calories. Here are five tips to help you navigate the rapids of December and emerge in the New […]

Joy – The Drug

Here’s powerful study result showing that breast cancer patients who received psychological counseling had

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improved survival, decreased recurrences of their tumors, and, even for those who had a recurrence, longer times until relapse. That’s powerful stuff. Especially considering that these women were not chosen because of mental health […]