: About Me

I am a cerebral-vascular stroke survivor. I enjoyed writing before this untimely accident but enjoy it even more now that I can no longer verbally communicate effectively. After my episode, which was nearly two years ago, I collected state disability insurance for the 8 months alloted to me.

After that was exhausted, I went through my meager savings and lived on hand-outs from my brothers until finally leaving CA (after a bout of homelessness) and moving in with my sister until such time as the federal government deems my disability claim worthy.

For now, I write to retain my sanity as much as any other reason. Writing allows me to achieve some semblance of intelligent communication, which is now beyond my limited vocalization abilities.

Writing can be a bit of a chore as I am left with left-side weakness as well as my speech impairment and I must hunt and peck one-handed in order to type missives such as this.

I hope to contribute as much as possible and would appreciate any ratings of my meager offerings you may be able to provide. I'm unsure how this rating system works but I whave watched my ranking fluctuate but have yet to see any ratings appear. Again, I am not quite sure how this whole rating system works but I hope to get the hang of it.

My passion is ...

music, books, hiking

I know too much about ...

reinsurance

My parents always told me ...

seek and ye shall find

My favorite memory ...

shipping on the high seas

Why I write ...

to explore

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

complete works of Paul Bowles

My first job ...

caddy

My best moment ...

being in love with beng

My inspiration ...

beng

Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) The homeless are a real problem with few solutions

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Alex George awoke from a familiar, recurrent dream. In this dream, Alex lay snug in his former bed, warm and happy. Not since the stroke and attendant disability, which in turn, led to his current state of homelessness, had he felt this cozy familiarity of station. The loss of means had left Alex uprooted, his very existence thrown to the four winds. Before it was over, it would propel him far from the friendly confines of his adopted home. Over the course of the next few years, Alex would leave San Francisco, relocate to Virginia and move in with his older sister. Subsequently, after a pr...

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