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Old 08-11-2008, 02:36 PM   #51
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I'm going to write it as I go. I want this to be a non-fic narrative book. The newspaper and tv stuff I intend to cultivate for this charity thing I hope to accomplish while I'm out there, NOT for me or about me.

I don't want the focus to be on me, I intend for the book to be, okay, I can explain at the beginning how I ended up this way, but the rest will be about the trip, the people along the way, the experiences, and I would hope the charity idea.

The ideas about articles along the way, I don't want to sail into towns and be saying, hey, Homeless Chick's here, look at me. What I want is for them to pay attention to the CHARITY. The focus of which will be either homeless mothers or kids needing scholarships.
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Hmm. Dude, I just spent 14 and a 1/2 months living in my car. I can tell you from personal experience that writing, any kind of writing, is not going to be part of your daily life. It's all fine an' effin' dandy to get "hyped up for it," but when the sh!t hits the fan, having crap all over your face is going to be the least of your worries.

With that said, you've got your own road(s) to travel, and I wish you as much luck as one man can to another in a brutally capitalistic world. I really don't feel like opening the book of my life to a forum full of people who are, as of yet, complete strangers to me, but I would like you to PM me with both your email addy and your choice of an instant messenger provider.

We don't have much time left to get you prepared and situated for what's coming, nerds, so get in touch with me as soon as you see this post.

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Old 08-11-2008, 05:16 PM   #53
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I just did a crazy thing. Did you know that if you eat nothing but peanut butter for five days you go crazy? Yes. It's true.

I e-mailed Oprah and her Angel network to see if they'll get behind me with this walk-as-benefit idea. It's probably just like querying agents, and crickets will be chirping, but I don't care anymore. Worth a shot.

I just want to make this thing into something worthwhile and not just my solitary stroll through a crummy time in my life.

p.s. did I mention that peanut butter makes you nuts? hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
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I'm going to write it as I go. I want this to be a non-fic narrative book. The newspaper and tv stuff I intend to cultivate for this charity thing I hope to accomplish while I'm out there, NOT for me or about me.

I don't want the focus to be on me, I intend for the book to be, okay, I can explain at the beginning how I ended up this way, but the rest will be about the trip, the people along the way, the experiences, and I would hope the charity idea.

The ideas about articles along the way, I don't want to sail into towns and be saying, hey, Homeless Chick's here, look at me. What I want is for them to pay attention to the CHARITY. The focus of which will be either homeless mothers or kids needing scholarships.
I think it's perfectly fine to focus on yourself in your writing. Human stories tend to resonate with people more than stories about charities. Your story, people along the way, all good stuff. Your reactions to things, etc. Through that you can more effectively work in the charity.

At the non-profit with which I work, I've noticed that donors are more generous if they hear about the individuals getting help, moreso than hearing the stats.
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Old 08-12-2008, 01:40 AM   #55
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I think it's perfectly fine to focus on yourself in your writing. Human stories tend to resonate with people more than stories about charities. Your story, people along the way, all good stuff. Your reactions to things, etc. Through that you can more effectively work in the charity.

At the non-profit with which I work, I've noticed that donors are more generous if they hear about the individuals getting help, moreso than hearing the stats.

Okay. I think it's the peanut butter. What you're saying is what I would have automatically thought had I been in the presence of the four food groups.

You know, peanut butter is the base of this "miracle mush" they're feeding starving kids in Africa now. It apparently IS working miracles but I must say it ain't workin' fer me. Ye Olde Brain's too decrepit for it to work probably.

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no worries.

Had a huuuuuggge cry this afternoon, then cackled madly for a bit, then the girl at the corner store lent me a ciggie so I'm good to go now for a while.
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It is what you make it & I think you'll do fine.

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Best wishes and I hope for your safety above all else. Do you have any backpacking or camping supplies? I read a story in Backpacker Magazine several years ago about someone who did something like this. I wish things were different and you didn't have to make this choice. With that being said, I always thought it would be exciting living in the wilderness for a bit. Make sure you have some sort of protection. Please keep us informed and if there's anything we can do to make this journey a bit easier, let us know. If you PM me an address I can at least send you some cigs for the journey.
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thanks joyce, and Krystal.

I'm a fairly dab hand at the outdoor stuff, thank God. My dad was a wilderness survival and wildlife instructor among other things, plus I grew up absorbing all my brothers' Boy Scout stuff. Even though I was a girl. Plus the majority of my professional work has been outdoors, I've gardened in the middle of nowhere with young bears stopping by, stuff like that. (because people built McMansions smack in their centuries-old travel paths. )


Plus too if I can pull the charity thing together there'd be some attendant publicity to that, which I'm thinking might confer a tiny dab of safety i.e. people would be paying at least a little attention when I'm passing through. I would hope. Maybe.

Camping stuff, the two good things I own other than this computer are an all-weather lightweight outergear set, overpants and coat; and an excellent sleeping bag. I have one pair of nurses' sneakers, which will have to do for now and they will, they're broken in and in very good shape. Besides, other than a pair of flip-flops that's all I own for footwear.

I'll do what the Appalachian Trail thru-hikers do and get mail drops set up along the way, and I have one or two friends here I can rely on to send me anything I might need, if necessary, when the weather turns cold. Which it won't for a bit yet. It's actually a good time to do this, weather-wise. The weather is fabulous in the northeast September-October, cool but I like cool and don't mind cold at all.

I need to get some 100% wool socks but I can do that somewhere along the line once I pick up some work out there.

At any rate. It'll come together as I go, I think. I don't need much.



One thing I'm excited about - posting pics here along the way. That'll be FUN.
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Hopefully the hundred dollars I sent you will be enough to buy something besides peanut butter.

Socks.

What? Can't eat socks? They'll be clean enough out of the package.
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What? Can't eat socks? They'll be clean enough out of the package.
Okay, but hope they're clean.
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Okay, but hope they're clean.


They'll taste like Wal-Mart but what the hell doesn't these days.




BTW, Spook LOANED me a LOAN. To be REPAID as I find work. Just for the record. I turned him down till he said it would be a LOAN. Isn't that what we said Jon? Can't actually remember what we said. But that's the deal. Peanut butter. Forget about blaming Bush. I blame peanut butter for everything, including memory lapses.
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They'll taste like Wal-Mart but what the hell doesn't these days.




BTW, Spook LOANED me a LOAN. To be REPAID as I find work. Just for the record. I turned him down till he said it would be a LOAN. Isn't that what we said Jon? Can't actually remember what we said. But that's the deal. Peanut butter. Forget about blaming Bush. I blame peanut butter for everything, including memory lapses.
I have no clue what you're talking about. I never loan money. But I will help a friend in need.
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LOL, I might very well have had that conversation inside my head. Quite possible.
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Staying up late researching charities. This part I am genuinely looking forward to. Once I pick one that looks good I'll talk to them about how to do this, so that I'm only a "partner" and anything would go direct to them, not via me. I'm looking for something small, not swamped in too much bureaucracy. I think scholarships for underprivileged kids is what I'd like to focus in on. Then we'll have to figure out if pledging per mile walked is good, or what would work best. Yippee! This I can sink my teeth into. Or feet, as it were.
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nerds, I am really worried for you. Are you sure there's nothing else you can do? You may feel really desperate right now, but there's got to be some organization or something out there!

You seem really, really opposed to accepting help from other people, even just a few bucks. Why? What's wrong with letting people help you out now and then? You may not realize this, but it makes US feel good to do a good turn for someone else. It's a way to say WE CARE ABOUT YOU.

Last year I had an encounter with a homeless girl. I ended up buying her a bunch of clothes. She kept thanking me, but I'm 100% sure I felt just as good as she did, if not better. Accepting help from others is, believe it or not, a gift to the people who give the help.

Is there some way we can help you?
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I'll be okay.

Maybe a few kids getting scholarships will keep them from ending up like me. Me is what only a high school education, working a while, then choosing to be a stay-at-home mom, divorce, and lack of health insurance when I had my accident can do, no matter how hard I worked during those single mom years. And did I work.

I had my own house in my own name. I got hurt, was laid up for months, sold it before they could foreclose. Back to the world of rent, a world I hate beyond the capacity of words to describe. Real hatred. You never dig out when you rent. Unless you've got an ubercareer, you never get another down payment put together to own again. And down and down I went, because I never could work at the rate I had been, at the work I was doing, after I got hurt. I couldn't generate the income I used to and the jobs I could take without a college degree don't pay squat.

I don't know what to say to you about the fact that I can't take help other than that I wish to keep my dignity during what could be a most undignified time if I allow it to be. I don't know how to make that acceptable to those who'd like to help, although I do appreciate it greatly. I do understand what you're saying, I do.

The best help to me will be if people just keep me company along the way via this thread, and, if they like, to contribute to whatever charity ends up chosen. In this way you will be helping ME. How? Because via helping some kids get a fair shot, you will endow my rooflessness with a purpose and integrity, and leave a little bit of a mark in the world as a bonus. I've chosen to take this disgusting situation and attempt to make it worth something. You can help me do that. That's how people can help.
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Alright Bogie, listen, and listen good.

I had no idea that you were a lady; from I had deduced that you were male. I've been through the ringer on this kind of deal, but I'm a man, and I just can't imagine what it would have been like for me to have a female anatomy, and all of the inherent complications that go along with it.

I was going to keep my big mouth shut, but I can't just stand by and watch this just happen with out at least trying to give you some advice.

The deal that you're proposing to make with some business entity; odds are 99-1 that it will NOT happen. In this world of omnipresent litigation, there is just no way that successful company is going to take on a liability such as yourself. I could go in to detail here as to the many reasons why, but just the fact that you are both disabled and over fifty
suffices.

But, and his the good part, because you are disabled, because you are over fifty, because you can't afford to see a doctor, and because you are homeless you qualify for our government's Disability, Supplemental Security Income (gosh dang it, you better not have been out of workd for eight years; if so you may not be covered by Social Security Insurance - I think the cut-off point is at 6 years) and Living Assistance programs, and your state's Department of Human Services EBT (food-stamps) program.

You need to go down to your local Social Security office (usually in a federal building in metropolis area closest to you) and apply for Disability and SSI. Then immediately go to your local DHS office to get food-stamps - in your situation, you should get the "emergency" full $162/mth allotment, but prorated for however many days are left in the month.

Now, your Disability case will take 120-90 days for a decision to be made (of course you'll also let the caseworker know that you're homeless so that he/she will do what they can to expedite it close 90 days instead of 120. Since you are over 50, it's almost a given that you will be accepted the first time (that is if you haven't been out of work for eight years) and then you can get an apartment for a Disabled person, of which 30% of Disability check will be used for the apartment, and our government covers the rest of the bill.

Because of your age, it is highly unlikely that you will be turned down and have to appeal, and have to get a lawyer (who only gets paid 25% of your "back-pay" or $5300, whichever is less, and only if he/she wins), write the national congress people for your state (better hope that they're Democrats) to help get your case expedited so that it won't another year and a half to finally get settled.

I'm not even going to edit this post because I'm pissed off about this crap. You're too GD old for this sh!t, Bogie! Our government sucks for the most part, but I'll tell what, it's the best government that we've got, and it may takes some time, but it'll come through for you if you really need it to. . . .

Go down to the Social Security office, TODAY, Bogie.

(It's people like Bogie who give us ALL reason to vote for Democrats, and make daydream of giving all Republicans one-way tickets into their own self-made hells.)
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Hey now!

"Ending up like you" I don't like the sound of that. Shit happens. I have a degree - a good one, too. If I didn't have 'X' - I might be 'Y' - just like you!

And Blue - I'm a girl too. And don't you worry none about the biology thing. By the time you get our age you have a few things figured out.
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That's my prayer for you. And all ya'll - remind me. I believe. This is a walk of Faith on your part. Don't let anyone steal your Joy.
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Maybe a few kids getting scholarships will keep them from ending up like me.
Not to dampen your spirits, but there's not a scholarship in the world that would have saved *me*
I'm living at home and on my last leg here.

Walk if that's what is right for you. Raise awareness- that can be just as useful as funneling money to a charity. Support yourself the best you can. But don't hide behind dignity when others want to help. I know it's tough but if you don't tackle this challenge with a solid start (rather than a PB induced fogginess) then it is hard for us to get behind you and cheer when we are too busy worrying. We are wishing you the best, but our fears grow each time you cling to your extreme independence. We want to see you succeed in your mission, and if we can be a small part of getting you on your way, it allows us to share in your glory without taking away your accomplishments ('cuz you sure as heck won't see me out there facing the world head on. I tried that. Was really good at it for awhile. I fell flat on my face.)

Besides, why walk for charity if you turn your nose up at it yourself?



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Btw, I once saw a (presumably) homeless bloke with a horse and their life on his shoulders. No fancy pack or equipment- only a halter for the horse- so I assumed they weren't on holiday. The guy just walked right past me, head up and eyes forward. I wanted to stop him to talk, but I could see he had a purpose and was moving toward it.

When he marched past me I could see he was a bit rough around the edges. Could have benefited from a shower and this was, after all, in a town full of hot springs. Might have needed a rest and a chance to reorganize his gear that overflowed from a ragged pack... But he and his horse looked sharp.

Disgusting? Never occurred to me.

Thanks for reminding me of that btw. There's a story in that somewhere, I just gotta find it
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Alright Bogie, listen, and listen good.

I had no idea that you were a lady; from I had deduced that you were male. I've been through the ringer on this kind of deal, but I'm a man, and I just can't imagine what it would have been like for me to have a female anatomy, and all of the inherent complications that go along with it.

I was going to keep my big mouth shut, but I can't just stand by and watch this just happen with out at least trying to give you some advice.

The deal that you're proposing to make with some business entity; odds are 99-1 that it will NOT happen. In this world of omnipresent litigation, there is just no way that successful company is going to take on a liability such as yourself. I could go in to detail here as to the many reasons why, but just the fact that you are both disabled and over fifty
suffices.

But, and his the good part, because you are disabled, because you are over fifty, because you can't afford to see a doctor, and because you are homeless you qualify for our government's Disability, Supplemental Security Income (gosh dang it, you better not have been out of workd for eight years; if so you may not be covered by Social Security Insurance - I think the cut-off point is at 6 years) and Living Assistance programs, and your state's Department of Human Services EBT (food-stamps) program.

You need to go down to your local Social Security office (usually in a federal building in metropolis area closest to you) and apply for Disability and SSI. Then immediately go to your local DHS office to get food-stamps - in your situation, you should get the "emergency" full $162/mth allotment, but prorated for however many days are left in the month.

Now, your Disability case will take 120-90 days for a decision to be made (of course you'll also let the caseworker know that you're homeless so that he/she will do what they can to expedite it close 90 days instead of 120. Since you are over 50, it's almost a given that you will be accepted the first time (that is if you haven't been out of work for eight years) and then you can get an apartment for a Disabled person, of which 30% of Disability check will be used for the apartment, and our government covers the rest of the bill.

Because of your age, it is highly unlikely that you will be turned down and have to appeal, and have to get a lawyer (who only gets paid 25% of your "back-pay" or $5300, whichever is less, and only if he/she wins), write the national congress people for your state (better hope that they're Democrats) to help get your case expedited so that it won't another year and a half to finally get settled.

I'm not even going to edit this post because I'm pissed off about this crap. You're too GD old for this sh!t, Bogie! Our government sucks for the most part, but I'll tell what, it's the best government that we've got, and it may takes some time, but it'll come through for you if you really need it to. . . .

Go down to the Social Security office, TODAY, Bogie.

(It's people like Bogie who give us ALL reason to vote for Democrats, and make daydream of giving all Republicans one-way tickets into their own self-made hells.)
Good advice, if a little boring.
Nerds, if you can get the benefits described above, go for it! But if you want to walk too - go for that as well. You're too old for nothing, except maybe an 18-30s holiday and, from what I hear, you're missing nothing there.

Bluehawk, sometimes there's more to life than just a comfortable house and a steady income. Sometimes you just gotta get out there and do something. If this is what nerds wants to go do, let her. She strikes me as more than capable of handling it.
Oh, and...uh....bogie?
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