Nina
@rustbeltrants.bsky.social
Writer, actor, sandwich caregiver. www.NinaWriteNow.com
My latest essay has been published. It's all about how to go to #foodpantries and why you should if you need food. It's also about the intersection of disability and poverty, and how that relates to undemployment and underemployment. Thanks for reading/sharing.
rootedinrights.org/the-ins-and-...
rootedinrights.org/the-ins-and-...
The Ins and Outs of Food Pantries
Many people who could benefit from food pantries don’t go. Whether pride holds you back or you think you don’t qualify, with grocery prices higher than ever, you should explore your local food pant…
rootedinrights.org
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My latest essay has been published. It's all about how to go to #foodpantries and why you should if you need food. It's also about the intersection of disability and poverty, and how that relates to undemployment and underemployment. Thanks for reading/sharing.
rootedinrights.org/the-ins-and-...
rootedinrights.org/the-ins-and-...
Obsessively checking Submittable to see if @tacobellquarterly.org has accepted my pitch or not.
May 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Obsessively checking Submittable to see if @tacobellquarterly.org has accepted my pitch or not.
My first essay of 2025 is up with Business Insider, and it's all about how I'm fine with my teenager not wanting to learn to drive. Hope you'll give it a read:
www.businessinsider.com/my-teenager-...
www.businessinsider.com/my-teenager-...
My teenager finally can get a driver's license. He's not remotely interested.
I'm a Gen X and couldn't wait to get a driver's license. My teenager is Gen Z and he couldn't care less about getting one.
www.businessinsider.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My first essay of 2025 is up with Business Insider, and it's all about how I'm fine with my teenager not wanting to learn to drive. Hope you'll give it a read:
www.businessinsider.com/my-teenager-...
www.businessinsider.com/my-teenager-...
I've made it to my 56th birthday. My survival to this point has often been in question, mostly due to chronic illness and multiple major surgeries, so I'm glad to have made it. Please clap, as they say.
February 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I've made it to my 56th birthday. My survival to this point has often been in question, mostly due to chronic illness and multiple major surgeries, so I'm glad to have made it. Please clap, as they say.
I am doing daily informational posts on TikTok each day in Feb highlighting a different person daily for Black History Month. It's a small way for me to be an activist and I'm proud to highlight these amazing people with a little history each day. www.tiktok.com/@rustbeltrants #BlackHistoryMonth
RustBeltRants's Creator Profile
www.tiktok.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I am doing daily informational posts on TikTok each day in Feb highlighting a different person daily for Black History Month. It's a small way for me to be an activist and I'm proud to highlight these amazing people with a little history each day. www.tiktok.com/@rustbeltrants #BlackHistoryMonth
Our annual LOTR trilogy binge watch is this weekend and truly it’s the only thing getting me through this week. The menu will be banging, as usual.
January 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Our annual LOTR trilogy binge watch is this weekend and truly it’s the only thing getting me through this week. The menu will be banging, as usual.
Reposted by Nina
This billboard says it all.
January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This billboard says it all.
Reposted by Nina
Reposted by Nina
It’s fucked up that some of you are starting accounts on that Chinese social media place. For one, that website might steal your information. For another, it might be owned by a terrible person trying to undermine American democracy. For a third thing, the owner might keep lying about going to mars.
January 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It’s fucked up that some of you are starting accounts on that Chinese social media place. For one, that website might steal your information. For another, it might be owned by a terrible person trying to undermine American democracy. For a third thing, the owner might keep lying about going to mars.
Reposted by Nina
Pete Hegseth has learned his lesson
by Joni Ernst
by Joni Ernst
January 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Pete Hegseth has learned his lesson
by Joni Ernst
by Joni Ernst
Reposted by Nina
Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife?
Hegseth: Please stop helping me
Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?
Hegseth: Please stop helping me
Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?
January 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife?
Hegseth: Please stop helping me
Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?
Hegseth: Please stop helping me
Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?
Reposted by Nina
decided we’re posting this after every Cavs win.
We may have identified the species of the Cavs frog.
The mystery appearance of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ win-streak frog had everyone asking questions. Ours might have an answer.
neorsd.medium.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
decided we’re posting this after every Cavs win.
Reposted by Nina
In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And say darling, could you douse my breaded tenderloin in gin in honor of our next Secretary of Defense?
January 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And say darling, could you douse my breaded tenderloin in gin in honor of our next Secretary of Defense?
Reposted by Nina
ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW!
You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.
You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.
January 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW!
You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.
You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.
Reposted by Nina
January isn’t even half over yet, and it’s been a long year.
January 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
January isn’t even half over yet, and it’s been a long year.
Reposted by Nina
After dinner tonight, my younger sister told me: "When I was younger, I used to sit at the table with the men after holiday dinners, watching the women clean up and thinking--why don't they just sit? Now I realize, if they didn't do it, no one would."
December 27, 2024 at 1:27 AM
After dinner tonight, my younger sister told me: "When I was younger, I used to sit at the table with the men after holiday dinners, watching the women clean up and thinking--why don't they just sit? Now I realize, if they didn't do it, no one would."
Reposted by Nina
an actually good movie about the empty venality of the american media is of course NETWORK. an actually good movie about blithe indifference to a looming threat is JAWS.
December 27, 2024 at 12:07 AM
an actually good movie about the empty venality of the american media is of course NETWORK. an actually good movie about blithe indifference to a looming threat is JAWS.
Reposted by Nina
NY Times, June 21, 1936.
December 24, 2024 at 11:04 PM
NY Times, June 21, 1936.
I will never be dissuaded from my opinion that Michael Caine deserved an award for his FLAWLESS and EMOTIONAL portrayal of Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol. No wink/hint of "playacting with puppets," he was ALL IN, every scene, and his transformation was TOUCHING. I will die on this hill.
December 23, 2024 at 8:59 PM
I will never be dissuaded from my opinion that Michael Caine deserved an award for his FLAWLESS and EMOTIONAL portrayal of Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol. No wink/hint of "playacting with puppets," he was ALL IN, every scene, and his transformation was TOUCHING. I will die on this hill.
Got one more personal essay published before we close out 2024 - my first for BuzzFeed. Thank you for reading. #caregiver #dementia #sandwichcaregiving
www.buzzfeed.com/ninamccollum...
www.buzzfeed.com/ninamccollum...
My Mother Is Still Alive, But I Don't Know Who She Is Anymore
"This has robbed me of the woman who was my best friend for more than 50 years."
www.buzzfeed.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Got one more personal essay published before we close out 2024 - my first for BuzzFeed. Thank you for reading. #caregiver #dementia #sandwichcaregiving
www.buzzfeed.com/ninamccollum...
www.buzzfeed.com/ninamccollum...
I know this will be controversial but…I liked the endings for #WWDITS, and agree that it time to end. I’m happy and satisfied and thank them for 6 of the best seasons of a show I’ve ever enjoyed. Amazing cast, crew, writers and directors. Working w/Matt Berry is now on my bucket list.
December 20, 2024 at 2:29 AM
I know this will be controversial but…I liked the endings for #WWDITS, and agree that it time to end. I’m happy and satisfied and thank them for 6 of the best seasons of a show I’ve ever enjoyed. Amazing cast, crew, writers and directors. Working w/Matt Berry is now on my bucket list.
Reposted by Nina
#WARNING: @cpsc.gov urges consumers to stop using FLIKRFIRE Tabletop Fireplaces due to flame jetting and fire hazards; Two deaths and serious burn injuries reported
Consumers should immediately stop using and dispose of these dangerous products.
More: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
Consumers should immediately stop using and dispose of these dangerous products.
More: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
December 19, 2024 at 4:01 PM
#WARNING: @cpsc.gov urges consumers to stop using FLIKRFIRE Tabletop Fireplaces due to flame jetting and fire hazards; Two deaths and serious burn injuries reported
Consumers should immediately stop using and dispose of these dangerous products.
More: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
Consumers should immediately stop using and dispose of these dangerous products.
More: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
I am not the same person in the winter after the sun goes down. If I said I wanted to go to that party, go to the movies, go out to dinner, I WAS LYING TO MYSELF. Do not ask me to go out after 430pm in the winter. I ain't going.
December 19, 2024 at 9:38 PM
I am not the same person in the winter after the sun goes down. If I said I wanted to go to that party, go to the movies, go out to dinner, I WAS LYING TO MYSELF. Do not ask me to go out after 430pm in the winter. I ain't going.