Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with dumpster-diving
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Eating Dog Food and the pandemic are overwhelming realities, here, in Appalachia. I see nothing in the media about how desperate it really is. On my block, people are eating their dogs. Not stuffing. The shame runs deep. Suicide runs deep. Hopelessness runs deep. Failure runs deep. Giving up runs…
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I’m Washing My Hair That Night
If there was a way to skateboard in a flood, we would find it. Business as usual. Intervention Is. Sometimes impossible. I have learned the hard way that you cannot impose interventions on adolescent boys twenty-four hours a day. It’s not my fault. I didn’t raise them. I am merely…