Raising funds for survival’s sake

It’s been a time. Over the past two-and-a-half weeks, I’ve done my best to return to the blog after a depression-related hiatus.

I worked very hard to battle through that stupid depressive episode via therapy, psychiatry and a medication change, and I’m starting to feel like myself again.

So I chose to come back for what is, quite honestly, the busiest time of the year in terms of NHL news, the period between the NHL Draft and about the middle of July (where we’ve arrived today).

I hope that you’ve enjoyed the return to coverage, and now that things are slowing down a little bit (though the NHL’s 2025-2026 schedule will be released at 1 PM EDT tomorrow), I will try to dip back into the writing business.

All of that being said, not having the blog to raise a couple hundred bucks a month has been a real drain on our finances.

The blog is definitely a labor of love that goes alongside my caregiving job, and Aunt Annie is incredibly supportive of the endeavor, but we “break even” financially by making a couple hundred bucks a month from our small but generous audience, and we haven’t had that secondary funding source for a good three-and-a-half months now.

So I’m going to start fundraising again, not because I want to, but because I have to in order to survive financially. This month, I’m hoping to raise about $200 to just survive in terms of paying my bills, hockey expenses included; next month, the server bill from Bluehost and Jetpack come due, and I’ll try to raise twice the usual amount when I’m a little more reestablished. I don’t know whether that’s realistic, because I understand how small this blog really is, but I can hope.

Anyway, we’re a blog without advertisements or paywalls, so I have no choice but to ask for your support. Here’s my request/sales pitch:

If you’re willing to lend a hand, we have a PayPal option at https://paypal.me/TheMalikReport; there’s Venmo at https://venmo.com/george-malik-2; if you’re into the, “I don’t want to sign up for any of those pages” option, here’s always the Giftly option by using my email, rtxg@yahoo.com, at https://www.giftly.com…

And in the banking options, you can contact me via email if you want to send me a paper check (ask for my address), or “Zelle” me via my email, rtxg@yahoo.com.

It’s my pleasure to provide you with as much information as I can give, but this is also a job, and it requires money, time, energy and effort (a.k.a. work). If you are willing or able to support this endeavor, it is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time. There is nothing more valuable in this world than a person’s time, and I am incredibly grateful that you spend a little bit of it here.