Personal
Sitting in my car in the grocery store parking lot, flicking purple bangs from my eyes while I eat discounted Easter candy and listen to The Smiths on my car radio. I tap my combat boots with the drums and contemplate the esoteric nature of the holiday and its ancestral paganism as I open another … More Memento Mori
Things are going to be a bit different around here. For one thing, it’s going to be a bit, well, more likely a ton more active. I realized lately something simple, profound, and freeing: I don’t care what anyone thinks about me anymore. And that’s a good thing. Looking back over my life, I can … More A New Attitude (But Really)
I have a habit of separating my personal life from my blogging life, and recently I’ve wondered if I might benefit from a greater extent of transparency and intimacy with all of you lovely people, and so I want to, for a moment at least, get more personal. Firstly, I want to apologize for … More I’m Back From San Francisco
There’s something that happens to me sometimes, Something that I haven’t talked about with many other artists or writers, but I am sure I can’t be alone in experiencing. When writing fast, when creating off the cuff and uncontrolled as we do in deep journal-type writing practice, or in NaNoWriMo, we have to pull from … More When Writing Triggers
Right now, it’s very late. I’ve been working on my computer all day for Paid Jobs. I still have 2 blog posts to catch up on, work deadlines looming, a trip to San Francisco to prepare for (Yes, I got into The Night of Writing Dangerously!) Thanks to a new assignment, I am cramming math for writing SAT prep … More Setting A Good Example, or, Screw It
Hello you gorgeous people! This is my (only slightly) shameless request for your help in helping me get to The Night of Wr iting Dangerously, taking place this November 15th in San Francisco. Because I love travel and the city, I have audaciously already booked my trip there, and now all I need is assistance … More The Night of Writing Dangerously
This is a cross-post from my much more personal blog made to catch any more personal ideas and thoughts that don’t fit in other places online. Because my identity is important to me, and shapes a good deal of what I do, I want to share it with you as well. Enjoy. Today is national coming … More National Coming Out Day: Demisexuality and Me
Sometimes shit happens. Generally, it happens right after a commitment, or a recommitment. Shit likes to hide off to the side, waiting until the right time to strike and derail us. Sometimes, very often, the derailment works. The trick isn’t to power through it, or to stick it out, or to beat ourselves up for … More Sometimes Shit Happens
In May of this year, I went to Japan for three weeks. I left home alone, my passport mere weeks old, to meet a group of strangers from Australia. And I never would have had what it took to do it if it wasn’t for my journey through twelve novels. It began on twitter, and … More Japan: Saying Yes.
The only thing harder than beginning is re-beginning. I’ve been gone a long while, I know. I’ve wanted to write many times, wanted to share some thoughts that never materialized into words. I’ve also wanted to skip over the bit about me taking such a prolonged leave of absence and pretend no one has noticed … More I’m back, and then I am gone
Concerning History in the Atlantic World, 1680-1740
The long haul of the spectrum
one woman's thoughts about life on the spectrum
Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens
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