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…

  Christmas Sacandaga Lake NY Finished off the last bottle of Corona from the six-pack bought from Stewart’s; sad, broken, not looking forward to more rough sleeping the Sunday after Christmas, but here I am. Paid the last of my Covid money to the hotel in the hopes of surviving another few days that I…

RoughSleeping 2021 parking lot Carmels Diner—Amsterdam NY It’s been sunny and warm, some days reaching 50 degrees, today it might reach 60 degrees—unreal. If people don’t think Climate Change is real by now, they need to! even we all can’t agree on what is causing it, we can accept things are not what they seem…

Homeless 2021—Market Street, Amsterdam NY  Woke up to pouring rain, but at least this time I was ahead of it soaking my sleeping bags! I also felt much better after being sick all week, to pack up my gear and head to my local hangout these days—good ole’ McDonalds. I’m still grateful to them for…

Winter “On The Street,” Pedestrian Bridge,  Amsterdam NY 2021       I woke up to the awful rumbling of something, but I wasn’t sure what. As I opened my eyes and pulled back the layer of sleeping bags, by now I had two doubled up, I could see in horror what it was. The sound…

 Abandoned Main Street — Amsterdam NY I’m wet and cold again, wondering if I will spend the rest of my life this way, as it stands now with all the attacks and cops chasing me around the city maybe it won’t be that long—God is merciful. I get up pack my few things and head…

“Joe Smo,” he told me when I asked his name was yelling that I was a retard! “Your too stupid, to understand,” he said. “You should get a job, makeup with your husband and be a comedian”—your pretty funny, he said shaking his head after adding sarcastically, if I could afford a cell phone then…