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Registered households increased by 16% in four days Late last week, we posted about our commitment to support pet owners who have/will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP benefits in November due to the Republicans shutting down the Federal Government. Mind you, the program is structured so it is funded, but Republicans resist […]
NaBloPoMo 2025: November 2 A great concern me has always been the lack of solidarity affluent white gay men and lesbians demonstrate to the larger LGBTQ+ community, especially those who do not identify as gay or lesbian. This illustrated the importance of a class or economic analysis when discussing “the” LGBTQ+ community. The lapse of […]
Life is complicated right now, but I decided to get back on this horse and try again. Making time to blog each day is an important mental and emotional exercise. I don’t know what to say this first day. There are no prompts for National Blog Post Month days this year. Perhaps as the art […]
The ugly decision to target our vulnerable neighbors by halting SNAP benefits disgusts all of us. The Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry is responding two ways Pet food is not covered by SNAP. But the cutoff means families will need to use more of their available financial resources for food, prioritizing the […]
I’m trying in my own fumbling way to create content. Today, I made a longish video (5 minutes) touring the winter preparations for our cat colonies. I’m actually pleased with how most of it turned out. I have yet to master the art of clipping video and fusing new segments. View this post on Instagram […]
This crisis is not the time for people to relinquish their pets or feel guilty because they can’t feed them. Hi. This is Sue from the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry, a project of Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities. Marie and I were talking about the impact of the SNAP crisis on pet owners. […]
Today I was in an online class with almost 100% white folx over 50. Someone used a racist term about immigrants. I said something. Guess what the other white folx did? There is no space where it is ‘safe’ to turn away from racism. People are putting their lives on the line, their bodies in […]
Today, I saw my trauma therapist. I’ve been working with her for eight years, through her transferring to three practices and countless psychiatrists. She’s working PT now so I also have a primary care therapist so my time with Brittany is spent on trauma work. After I told her I wrote a post about our […]
My therapist recently asked me to recount a childhood experience where I felt or knew that I had been abandoned. At some point in our childhood, my parents started taking off for little drives on my Dad’s off days. They would leave while we were still at school and come home when the spirit moved […]
Yesterday, an innocuous brown box arrived at the house. There was no name, so I opened it figuring it was a 50% chance of being mine. I was right. Inside I found a package from my brother – a very large handful of photos he had found when he was packing to move. I was […]
