The Light Shifts—Rhonda J Flanagan Photography  Just when I thought I had gotten my eating to a place I could manager for the Winter, the weather changed. I woke up 3am vomiting my cheese sandwich. I also had a few White Claws to take the edge off, but after checking the cheese the next day,…

Homeless~rough sleeping, Amsterdam NY, Fulton County NY, Sandford Farms  It was a beautiful morning, the kind of Spring day u cherish after such a brutal Winter. By most accounts, the Winter wasn’t that bad, it wasn’t really snowy, icy, or long stretches of bitter cold, but I was still sleeping outside—homeless! I have yet to fully…

Homeless, sleeping on abandoned porch—Amsterdam NY The wind howled all night, March was hanging on to the bitter end; just when I thought I had survived Winter, but I couldn’t complain—I had survived! I needed to remind myself of that, there was still a long way to go, but I had survived the worse. I…

Homeless—RiverLink Park, Amsterdam NY  Watching images of people walking the road to the border with one suitcase was hard. War In Ukraine! Headlines read. The journalist reporting live from a road out of Ukraine to the border. It was hard to watch. People had driven hours trying to leave their Country in the midst of…

https://apple.news/AbzNgre3gRIaLb-VtsQoT1Q Didn’t want to write this morning, except for the sunrise it was n awful morning. I woke up crying again. It was too cold to get out of the mummy bag n I was in pain; achy, sore, feeling like I had been punched repeatedly in the left arm. My back was wet from…

Photography collage — Rhonda J Flanagan  Waking up to a mouse rummaging through my small bag of garbage, probably a field mouse I think; little, gray, looking for a snack. I empty him from the bag, sighing how cold it is, but how can I complain? It’s been pretty warm considering it’s the dead of Winter….

iPhoneography Art—Rhonda J Flanagan She said, and hung up again. We had been doing this  all night; back n forth hanging up on each other. I felt 12yrs old all of a sudden; as girls we would talk for hours. She had often told me how crazy I was, especially trying to convince me her…

Sandford Farms—Amsterdam NY It’s been 6 below w windchill of -14—baby, it’s cold outside. I’m still rough sleeping, my dreams consist of remembering the new white guilts I bought for my single place after separating from my husband. I had moved upstairs of our 2-family, 20yr home thinking I could live in the apartment upstairs….

Carmel’s Diner  I read the Tweet, having looked for it first thing, and there is was—Guilty! Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of all counts save one! It finally felt I had crossed some divide, a path out of the woods. United with the survivors that testified of her horrible abuse, made my abuse more real. The…

Carmel’s Diner—Amsterdam NY    Sitting in front of another store front window, Carmel’s Diner—“For Sale!” they tell me again. I had tried to rent an apartment in Northville, NY that turned out to b another scam run by a slumlord that took my money, gave me no heat, then conspired w others to try seducing…