These posts are written by real people that have real perspective on what it is or was like to need public assistance. If you would like to submit a guest post please let me know.
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For the past 4 years, my husband and I have been without health insurance due to either waiting for pre-existing time limits to past or being laid off at work and having to wait for another time period of coverage to begin. 4 years ago we lived in SC and my husband had a great [...]
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Nearly every weekend, my grocery list takes me to two or three different stores and bustling farmers markets in the warm months. In addition to regular needs like milk and bread, I’m usually looking for ingredients to try a new recipe or make a special family dinner. At times, it can feel pretty foreign. When [...]
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On the surface, I am like so many of us out there. You would never know that I am poor. I like to think of it as “the hidden poor” – we don’t meet the stereotype, and therefore the image of the statistic is skewed. I could be your next door neighbor: I have a [...]
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Politics. You can’t miss it right now. Every night a new city hosts a new debate or another attack ad blasts on the radio. I don’t write about politics here, not really. But in a sideways way, when I have written about my family’s experience with health care, unemployment, and public assistance I have been [...]
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There is a vision of what an average welfare recipient looks like. None of it is pretty. Very little of it is accurate. When I tell people who I advocate for – people with autism and with intellectual disabilities, reactions usually come close to “oh that’s so noble..” it’s clear people believe it is a [...]
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It’s not like the people I grew up with were wealthy. Our county was predominantly poor and rural. Our teen drop out rate was shockingly high because it “didn’t matter,” and you were Someone if you could afford to shop at the Gap and Old Navy. Color coordinating outfits and a few trapper-keepers. Trapper Keepers? Please. That put you [...]
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I once stood in the check out line for 30 minutes; an ungodly amount of time to run in and out for a few food items. I picked the shortest line and there I stood behind two women with a toddler, legs dangling, sitting in their cart. Their items were neatly divided into three orders. [...]
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Tomorrow I will be sharing with you the first guest post in my In Times Like These series. I am excited to share other points of view from other families in times of need. Please come back to read these 1st person stories. It’s no secret that I am rather fond of the internet. The [...]
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In 2012 I will be running a weekly series on Creating Motherhood called ‘In times like these‘. This is something that I felt inspired to do after writing the Food Stamp Etiquette post in November. That post was so satisfying for me because up until that point I had not allowed myself to publicly write [...]
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