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Last week I wrote about my housing situation – it is quite grim. Let me summarize – I won’t be able to afford private housing, not even a room to let. I won’t be eligible for ‘programs’ that makes up the public safety net. No one has offered me a spare bedroom or even a […]
My first tattoo appeared in December – a tattoo of my blog logo. It is locate don the inside of my right forearm near my elbow. It faces me to remind me of something I’ve accomplished – a way that I’ve contributed. Also, it reminds me that I love this work. The inkling for another […]
Today, August 27, marks three of the worst days of my life. August 1992 In August 1992, I had just moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for graduate school. A Hurricane named Andrew was coming our way. I was terrified. My roommate, a lifelong Louisiana resident, left me to go to her sister’s apartment, saying there […]
Content Note: involuntary civil commitment, police, trauma, mental health system, domestic violence “Books are often far more than just books.”― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays When the police came to handcuff me and drag me from my home on August 27, 2023 – to execute what I still believe was an invalid civil warrant for involuntary commitment […]
In 2011, we wrote an editorial for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It’s time for the Steelers and other pro sports teams to confront the homophobia in their ranks. James Harrison provoked us. So we pivoted to working with The Pirates on their It Gets Better video and eventually Pride Night, slowly losing interest and connection with […]
Each day, I have a plan. I set some goals and make an effort to meet them, with varying results. But I revise the plan and move forward. I try not to define things as failures, simply disappointments. And I try not to think about the next day unless I must. I know people in […]
Last week, the spokesperson for Allegheny County posted a reel on Instagram in which she said “today, Colin Dunlap said we’re all soft, we’re overreacting, our forefathers used to be outside in the smog and smoke a pack on top of it. And to that I say, You’re right. Colin. You should go outside and […]
Content Note: nutrition and health minus the judgey lecture, destigmatizing food pantries, and bloodwork Kale. Kale seems to have done the trick. Back in April, I began a daily regimen of a kale smoothie. My cholesterol readings were elevated. I had already been taking a statin, but something else was necessary. My blood pressure was […]
Remember the Presidential Fitness tests in school? Push ups, sit ups, some running, dangling from a bar, etc. It sucked That’s how I learned I couldn’t do a sit up. Not in second grade, not in sixth grade, never really. From age five onward, I felt like a sit up failure. Even when my classmates […]
CN: child abuse, menstrual/menopausal, dog bite I cannot do a sit up. I just can’t do it. This proved a challenge on the Presidential Fitness Tests in elementary school. My gym teacher, Mr Kenzel (sp?) was baffled. Year after year, I would strain and try. Classmates would support my back. I was a scrawny kid […]
