The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction is now available. 13 stories with pagan themes and characters. If this sells well, I think they’ll put out more anthologies like this one. My story “Black Doe” is in this book; it took second place in the fiction contest.

How many of you have had THIS conversation with your mother?

From a friend. You can get socks at Amazon with free shipping if you buy enough. Or try the Dollar Store or somewhere similar. I know DT and she’s right–socks are surprisingly hard to come by. So if you’d like to help homeless teens, please consider sending socks.

ETA: If you want to paypal me some money, to save on shipping, let me know and I can buy more socks and add it to my purchases/shipping package.

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SOCK MY PUNKS!

Hi there!

I’m the Resource Coordinator for a non-profit organization that works with homeless and indigent teenagers, as well as teens who are in bad home situations. OxenFree is a really fantastic program that engages at-risk teens through punk rock music, and provides support in a drug-free and alcohol-free environment.

The reason I’m invading blogs today? My job with OxenFree is to receive requests from the phenomenal people who run the program, and to figure out a way to fill them. My current assignment is…SOCKS. And I have to admit, I’m a bit at a loss. Socks are not a large-volume item at clothing centers (people usually just wear them out instead of donating them), and they’re surprisingly expensive. Homeless teenagers, especially hitchhikers, go through socks like you wouldn’t believe. My friend Margie can no longer afford to keep stocking her “free socks” drawer by herself, and asked me if I could try working my magic.

So, would you be willing to help me sock my punks?

If so, thank you in advance! Thank you so much! Any donation is welcome (supplies only, please) at the following address:

OxenFree Donations
4922 E. New York St.
Indianapolis, IN 46201

Toothbrushes, toothpaste, and tampons are also very useful and hard-to-come-by items.

If shipping to Indiana is too expensive, it would totally rock MY socks off if you considered donating to a similar program in your own city. At-risk teens are everywhere. They’re really neat people, and doing tiny things to help them out has an incredible effect.

Thank you so much, again, for your time, attention and consideration!

D. T. Friedman

Map colors to words.

Help! I can’t stop clicking!

On a lighter note, who knew that Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog had so much in common?

ETA: Although I think the pictures are work-safe, the LJ user icons may not be.

I am extremely grateful for all the ideas you guys offered to help my friend, and I know she appreciates it too.

They are good ideas. But there’s a snag in the plan at this point. As I mentioned before, her current living situation is potentially unsafe. After new events, it’s become even more dangerous. That makes it hard to pursue any treatment plan.

What options are there for someone who has no income and whose only living space is with a mentally-ill family member who may harm her? Can she be defined as homeless, and if so, what living or shelter arrangements might there be? I just don’t know anything about this. Who can use resources like that? How good/bad are they?

I’m really out of my knowledge zone here, so I appreciate any leads you can offer. She needs a treatment plan, but she needs a physically safe place to be first. I wish there were a live-in treatment program she could afford, but that option is no longer available, I think.

Thank you all.

ETA: Original story here, if you missed it.