
I live and write from a van at 75. Real stories of homelessness, survival, and building a life again—one day at a time.
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the stories we never tell.
Not because they aren’t important. Usually it’s because they’re too uncomfortable. Too personal. Too close to the bone.
Over the next few months, I’m going to change that....
Nobody hears the moment a woman decides she's had enough.
There's no slammed door. No suitcase hurled into the trunk. No speech over Sunday dinner. She's just standing at the sink, washing the same plate she's washed a thousand times, and...
The cicadas start before the light does. I'm up at dawn anyway — old habit, or maybe just an old body that won't sleep past the birds. Coffee on the front porch, Louisiana already thick with July, the kind of heat that sits on your chest li...
Nobody hands you freedom with your last check. Turns out it's a second job.
I couldn't sleep last night.
People act like starting over
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