It's January 2020. Outside, the California sun is moving through a pale blue sky; it illuminates the houses and palm trees and pavement and the stretch of sidewalk where once I dreamt I saw a ghost. That's perhaps the best description for 2019 that I can come up with: the dream of a ghost. In … Continue reading 2019 A Year in Review
Life Updates
More Updating
Hello All! Just wanted to write a quick post to share some of the cool things that have been happening. This past Sunday, I participated in a one-day workshop hosted by ZYZZYVA. It was exhausting (think six hours straight of literary criticism both given and received), but definitely rewarding. And I was honored just to … Continue reading More Updating
Life Update 2019
Hello All, It's been a while, hasn't it? So, to start out with, the beginning of this year hasn't been easy. As you may be aware, I struggle with chronic depression, vacillating between fairly functional to suicidal to everywhere along the line. So it goes. I returned to the Midwest recently, to the cornfields and … Continue reading Life Update 2019
2018: A Year in Review
It's 5:18AM, Sunday the 23rd of December, 2018, and I'm worrying about dog collars. Well, not dog collars in general, but one dog collar in specific. It's someone's lucky dog collar, in fact, and I'm worrying about it. This to say that 2018 has been filled with the unexpected. Perhaps not unexpected in a vast … Continue reading 2018: A Year in Review
Stay Alive
I am gender nonconforming. I tried writing this blogpost over and over again in different ways, starting with different stories, taking different tones, but in the end I just needed to say it. I have never felt the categories of "male" or "female" fully encapsulated who I am. As a child, I idolized Amelia Earhart, … Continue reading Stay Alive
Life Update: August 2018 Edition
Hey kids and kittens! It's been half a minute since I wrote something on here, so let's dust it off and see what we've got. What a year, friends, and it isn't even over yet! In the last few months since returning from Europe, I moved apartments, started a new job, and then another new … Continue reading Life Update: August 2018 Edition
Coming Home
As of today, June 9, 2018, I have been back in Oakland for exactly one month. Understandably, many of my acquaintances believe I am still on my European quest, and in a way, they aren't entirely wrong. It feels dramatic to say that a three-week trip changed my life, dramatic, but accurate. I've always sought … Continue reading Coming Home
Writing Under Capitalism
I have recently been reading "The View From Flyover Country" (Thanks, Pads!), and it reiterating and deepening my understanding of many issues. Primarily for me, the impossibility of writing under capitalism. Writing is communication. When writing is honest, it is an expression of soul, or if you prefer, an expression of the inner workings of … Continue reading Writing Under Capitalism
And Beyond
It's been a hectic two weeks. Two weeks since I doused myself in the shower at midnight. Two weeks since I declared once again that my life is my life is my life and at the end of it the only person I have to answer to is myself. So, in the intervening two weeks, … Continue reading And Beyond
The Blog at Three
Yes, three years have passed (Three?? And only three???), and this blog is still in existence. And I have to say I'm at more of a loss than ever to quantify or explain it. This clearly isn't a lifestyle blog. Unless that lifestyle is living paycheck to paycheck in the most expensive area in the … Continue reading The Blog at Three
