Hello, reader. How’s tricks? Can I tell you what uncomfortable is like? For me, it’s like pain but a little bit less. Like pain that rumbles instead of stabbing. Uncomfortable is distressing. Uncomfortable is feeling wrong in my skin, or feeling like, “Hmm, I can do this for a short time. Then I gotta go.”… Read More »
Hey, reader. Are you radical? That word has bad connotation to some. But you know I do radical mental health, one of my main projects. Radical is a favorite concept and word. Likewise Ming is radical. We’re buddies on that. Luckily almost all of our values are shared: our relationship has such longevity partly for… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I want to tell you how I married myself on New Year’s Day. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. It changed me. At first I didn’t want to blog about it because I felt protective. How I married myself felt too sacredly important to share widely.… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Do you have a garnet earring I could have or borrow? Just one–I feel more comfortable with asymmetrical earrings. These days I wear a gold hoop I found in the gutter here in Eugene, in my right ear, along with a simple earring of carnelian, my favorite stone. All… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I was talking with a new friend about communication, neurodivergence, and considering audience. I explained how I’m always considering audience. What a fun conversation. I enjoyed the ideas as something I don’t usually talk about. Then I thought you might like to read too. So this post considering audience… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Are you a reader? I was a hardcore reader as a child and teenager. When I became an adult, I developed problems concentrating and more physical pain. Reading is hard for me these days. Zines are lightweight and low commitment. I want to tell you alternative ways to read… Read More »
This list poem “poetry” is a love poem to my friend. Thank you for making me sing my own poem to the river. Thank you for helping see parts of my stodgy stuckness, my wrongness. Thank you for busting me up with poetry. Thank you for confusing me generatively. Thank you for giving me a… Read More »
Hey, reader. How’s tricks? Where are you comfortable and feel like yourself? I’ve been thinking about city vs rural vs wild. Backing up, I could ask: Are you ever comfortable and feel like yourself? I’ve said before that I’m only comfortable when I’m alone. But that’s not true. With Ming and a few other people,… 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 »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I was very slowly walking up some steep stairs this morning, thinking about how disability is a spectrum. That’s an idea floating around already… but I want to mention it because I encounter many people who don’t know disability is a spectrum, and they do some low key crappy… Read More »