Tag Fundraiser

Eh-Eh Meetings

Among the many things people don’t understand about my homelessness is my reluctance to meet. Here is some context, in the most simple terms. I am in dire need of financial help. That is an unavoidable truth of my circumstances.…

GoFundMe News

New Campaign. I’ve started a new GoFundMe. Find it here. The target amount is set at $10,000. Why reset a fundraiser? My original GoFundMe campaign was in operation for two years. It stalled at just over $3000. All of those…

Shop

Coming Soon! For those who have taken an interest in my struggle, the work I create, and/or the writing I’ve done — something new! While the timeline remains uncertain (I’m homeless, you know), I will soon be opening a shop.…

Value Added

Stereotype + Mythology If poverty is a tight-rope walk, homelessness is a tight-rope walk in a hurricane while juggling chainsaws, blindfolded. Frugality, poverty, struggle, these are circumstances a lot of successful people are conversant with. The immigrant story. The refugee…

X_Mas

Just a pre-holiday note to remind you what this site is for. Convenient link to the GoFundMe below. Yes! I Will Donate! When you’re homeless, everything is both urgent and inevitable. That contradiction is a spirit-killing moment in time, always…

Numbers/Cost of Living

March 2022 NOTE: This text was written in late 2021, before inflation began to rise. My food costs have, as of March 28, 2022, increased 30%. My income, which as a homeless person is all of $343 monthly, is not…

3/21/2022

Highlights first, then some detail. Fundraiser is active and I need your help. All donors are welcome. My fundraising goal, when I started this process, was about $35,000. That figure represented one year’s security, housed, off the street. The dollar…

strut, cut, blood, lunch [ʊ]

(March, 2022 – Additional update on text. All donors are now welcome. Things are pretty grim.) York U (etc.) UPDATE: I’ve looked at the resources listed at the York U website and found a couple of bright spots (though not…