It was starting to get hot even at 10am as I sat at Stewarts and thought of being up to the Sacandaga Lake. I liked sitting outside at the new outdoor patio now and could get a toasted bagel and cream cheese and some hard-boiled eggs. I was getting stronger and felt good that my…
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Fighting And Thrown Out Of Bars
“I’m going to kill you,” he said. I stood outside Armory Grill and wondered why everything seemed hazy, I didn’t feel right and only had one drink there, but it was liquor and I didn’t really like liquor. I had a few Beers before I went there, but I felt strange. I came to the…
Enablers
It rained all night, I didn’t sleep too bad though. I was grateful for the porch roof at the abandoned house I was still sleeping at. I was regularly watching sweeps being done on homeless communities in NY and across the country. The despicable way the homeless were being treated and criminalized I was learning…
Arrested Out Of The Lakehouse Memorial Day Weekend
“Ma’am, you’re going to have to vacate the property,” the officer said. Bentley and I had just headed down to the lake to wash up. I felt bad he had not yet been in the water. My other two dogs had played at the lake, but he hadn’t been able to. This was going to…
Peacefully Protesting
I stumbled down the street, scared, tired, and dirty trying to find out what happened to my suitcase, the last of the few items I had from my 20yr marriage—2 suitcases that consisted of basically some clothes, a few new brick-brack items I purchased in Maine and my old Macbook Pro. I had just bought…
Prostitution
I didn’t want to write today, I wanted to go home, but I have no home. I would write at home if I had one, but I have to go to McDonald’s. As much as I love hanging there for a while, I wish there were other internet cafes or we all had Free WiFi,…
Waking Up Alone
Didn’t sleep well last night, I woke up periodically very cold. Sleeping by myself now is very different than all the years I slept with my ex. His snoring would rattle the windows. He was up often with insomnia and made noise repeatedly to wake me up on purpose. I never slept well in my…
You Should See Someone
I had no Healthcare. I had been under my ex-husband’s policy, but they viciously took that away like so many other things when I wasn’t even in court. I was never allowed to use his. Mostly he had me covered in case of something catastrophic, not because he cared, but because he didn’t want to…
Go Walk The Streets
My head still hurts from my mother hitting me in the head with the door. I have no lock on the door so it made it hard to just close it when she started to rage about me being here. I had asked her to leave, there was no point in talking about anything anymore….
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