Hello, reader. How you doing? I feel concerned and a half about our dangerous culture. I’m uncomfortable with how many people are left out and left behind, barely surviving, and suffering in ways that are not necessary. Why did we make a culture where money-created self-sufficiency is the huge lie? It’s not safe. I don’t… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? What’s your type? I have a thing for transmasc enby autistic artists–especially traumatized ones! Long haired Asians are pretty amazing and will turn my head. Ming ruined me long ago. Activist hippies I get mixed up with often, and zinesters are bomb. But long term, definitely– I have a… Read More »
Hello, reader–how you doing? When Ming and I were homeless the most recent time, that was the most stressful four months of my life. So grateful we got through that. I want to tell you the four sentences that saved my marriage. Here they are. Your needs are valid I care about your needs. I’m… Read More »
“I’m going to tell you a story, ok?” I asked Ming. It’s about a magic blanket. “Ok,” Ming said. safe We were lying in bed cuddling before Ming had to go out for an evening event. It had been a hard day for me. I need new ways to feel safe. “Imagine a party,… Read More »
Hello, dear reader. How are you doing? This morning some feelings were stirring inside me about relationships and needs. I was washing and chopping potatoes, cogitating hard. Everyone has needs in relationship, and I’m ok with that. It hurts when I’m shamed for what I need, or when people try to convince me that they… Read More »
Who we let in and who we keep out is a big part of how we make safety. I poked a hole in a clove of garlic and hung it over our door on a yellow-orange thread, from the branch of bay leaves. It was to keep out vampires, but some other magic too. A… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Spring is wild–they don’t call it March madness for nothing. That’s when I made this art and started this blog post. Then months passed, and now we’re deep in summer. The change to so much light is overwhelming. Like every year, this year I lost my mind a bit. … Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I want to tell you what God said to me a few days ago. I was crying in bed, beyond heartbroken. Lying on my tummy, kinda squirmy, I cried and cried, begging God for freedom. What kind of freedom was I asking for? I was asking for freedom from… Read More »
Hey, reader. How are you doing? I had an intense dream this morning about an alien and a mystery solved. Not a bad dream, but it woke me up with severe emotion. backstory I would like to tell you my intense dream, but it needs some backstory. In real, non-dream life, about six or eight… Read More »
“Hey, dear,” I said to Ming. “Do you ever get the feeling your system updated, and you have to re-teach your computer all the stuff you added to your dictionary?” I was at my desk in the early morning, agonizing at my chromebook. “No,” Ming said. “Yeah, I have to re-teach it like ‘zine’ is… Read More »