Where Is Your "Third Place"?

I hear all of the time about the need for "third places," meaning a place other than one's home or workplace.  If you are reading this I would like to know, what is your third place?  I am doing a survey among all I meet anywhere.

Is Online The New Main Street?

I know that it is pretty common knowledge that people don't have the sense of community that most believe that we once did.  Are we just nostalgic for the way we NEVER were?  Shopping malls have tried to be the community gathering place.  That does create a little problem in that we are then in the position of either shopping or trespassing.  Hmmm....

I think maybe online is the new Main Street considering how many people ignore those around them in a coffee shop or other traditional neighborhood place to play on a computer or other electronic gadget.  Is the Internet the new neighborhood?

Mary, Homeless Wth An Address: I Am Homeless With An Address.

Mary, Homeless Wth An Address: I Am Homeless With An Address.: I realize that my current situation is very different from the homelessness which I experienced in the 1980's as the wife of an alcoholic wh...

I Am Homeless With An Address.

I realize that my current situation is very different from the homelessness which I experienced in the 1980's as the wife of an alcoholic who could not, or at least would not, think beyond his next drink.  However, I am wondering whether others out there feel the same way I do.  I work and pay rent but feel like I really don't have a home. 

Part of this is simply being new to Orlando after living in San Francisco for 23 years in the same apartment with the same landlord until he died in September of 2010.  However, I know that returning to San Francisco would not be returning home because I would be in a different neighborhood where I would know my way around perhaps no better than I know my way around Orlando. 

I am wondering how many people are homeless while paying for the dwellings they occupy in our ever-more mobile society.