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« Last post by mfitzy111 on April 01, 2025, 02:08:12 PM »so after my brother passed away in 2023 homeless in Florida, I actually finished a book for him. I started writing in 2010 over my lunches while I had a desk job in the IT field. I needed something to do over winter while deciding if I wanted to keep on mowing lawns or move on and go back to working on computers.
In a way I wrote this book to help myself deal with things that I wasn't able to help my younger middle brother with...addiction, homelessness, being caught up in retail theft, being arrested many times. This started in 2010 when he called me from lockup asking for bail money, I had just gone through divorce and couldn't afford to help at all. I was in a bad place myself and getting kicked to the curb by a girl I moved in with...her dumping me, put me in to a motorhome. I still had a job, but I was treading water. I was outside for a few months myself.
Around 2019 my youngest brother died of a heart attack, after dealing with renal failure and being on dialysis for about 9 years. (I am thankful he missed covid and 2020.) My brother from Florida showed up for the funeral and looked bad, thin, strung out, angry. He somehow went back to Florida again. He was homeless again down there in St Petersburg. His daughter contacted me via facebook messenger telling me he had died in Oct 2023.
It is kind of crazy that I couldn't help either of my younger brothers and they are both gone and I'm the oldest of the three of us. So what I decided I could do is write some kind of basic informational guide to help people that might end up where he was going so they don't meet his fate. What I wrote was "Creating Shelter: Navigating Homelessness on a Low Budget". It is FREE if you have kindle unlimited, or you can buy the book for like $12. My goal isn't really to make money on this book, it's to help people, so if you know anyone that might need it. What this book contains is identifying problems, avoiding trouble, living outside, a list of items that might be helpful in the "outside" survival camp. So yeah, if you know someone that might be in need, Let them know it exists.
I am also working on another book for "camping", that is being proofread. Hopefully that one will be more informative and more suitable as a how-to guild. Once the new book is done, and uploaded I will likely share it here first.
Thanks all.
-Fitzy
In a way I wrote this book to help myself deal with things that I wasn't able to help my younger middle brother with...addiction, homelessness, being caught up in retail theft, being arrested many times. This started in 2010 when he called me from lockup asking for bail money, I had just gone through divorce and couldn't afford to help at all. I was in a bad place myself and getting kicked to the curb by a girl I moved in with...her dumping me, put me in to a motorhome. I still had a job, but I was treading water. I was outside for a few months myself.
Around 2019 my youngest brother died of a heart attack, after dealing with renal failure and being on dialysis for about 9 years. (I am thankful he missed covid and 2020.) My brother from Florida showed up for the funeral and looked bad, thin, strung out, angry. He somehow went back to Florida again. He was homeless again down there in St Petersburg. His daughter contacted me via facebook messenger telling me he had died in Oct 2023.
It is kind of crazy that I couldn't help either of my younger brothers and they are both gone and I'm the oldest of the three of us. So what I decided I could do is write some kind of basic informational guide to help people that might end up where he was going so they don't meet his fate. What I wrote was "Creating Shelter: Navigating Homelessness on a Low Budget". It is FREE if you have kindle unlimited, or you can buy the book for like $12. My goal isn't really to make money on this book, it's to help people, so if you know anyone that might need it. What this book contains is identifying problems, avoiding trouble, living outside, a list of items that might be helpful in the "outside" survival camp. So yeah, if you know someone that might be in need, Let them know it exists.
I am also working on another book for "camping", that is being proofread. Hopefully that one will be more informative and more suitable as a how-to guild. Once the new book is done, and uploaded I will likely share it here first.
Thanks all.
-Fitzy
