Category Archives: Guest Urchins

The Weekly Urchin Recap

By Jeannette Norris [Guest Urchin Jeannette Norris has been living, working, volunteering, WWOOFing, and travelling in South America since January. These photographs from her trip document the varying city and farm life in which she’s immersed herself for the past … Continue reading

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This Is the Only Thing That I Am Sure Of: Love’s ‘Forever Changes’

By Jarrod Annis [Jarrod Annis is a contributor to the Urchin Movement. He lives and writes in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.] Much like the kaleidoscopic conglomeration of faces that grace the album cover, there are many ways to approach Love’s Forever … Continue reading

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It Came from Planet Earth

By Marguerite Preston [Marguerite Preston is a baker with writerly ambitions and a fascination for weird science. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.] It’s Halloween. The streets are filled with ghosts and ghouls and monsters of all kinds. It’s … Continue reading

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Picture: Norway

By Kindra Covert [Kindra Covert is a professional traveller currently vagabonding and photographing her way across Europe. Last year, she contributed a photography series from her five week cycling trip from Washington to California. She also co-designed the Urchin Movement … Continue reading

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A Runaway Pup and his Vigilant Saviors

[Nancy Parker-Simons is the manager at the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch in Medina, TX. For the last several years, Nancy, her husband Tony, and Kinky Friedman have helped rescue over 2,000 abandoned animals. She has a wonderful blog where she … Continue reading

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“Going All In” for Death Row Animals

By Bobby Hedderman [Urchin Dad, Bobby Hedderman has recently written and recorded his first song in 45-years. Now, he's using that song to help benefit the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch in Medina, TX.] Well, it took longer than I thought … Continue reading

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How to Write Your First Song in 45 Years

By Bobby Hedderman [Urchin Dad, Bobby Hedderman spent years in the rock n’ roll business – producing some legendary shows (Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, and Freddie King, among others) at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, TX. Now, after a … Continue reading

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You Can Leave, But It’s Going to Cost You

By Jarrod Annis [Jarrod Annis is a contributor to the Urchin Movement. He lives and writes in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.] Falling in and out of love is the penultimate topic of pop music. But what happens when attractions and infatuations … Continue reading

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We’re Ardent and Astray, Not Apathetic

By Gina Williams [Gina Williams is a guest writer for the Urchin Movement. In the following article, she discusses current problems facing the U.S. Gina also writes about motorcycle accidents.] We belong to a generation viewed by the world as … Continue reading

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On Pacifism

By Beth Jost [Beth Jost is a neurologist at a veterans hospital in Chicago. Hailing from the city’s South Side, she is a boomer, empty nester, pacifist, movement specialist, and mindfulness and meditation neophyte. She also happens to be Sarah’s … Continue reading

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