Writing
Essays on connection, repair, and the occasional joke that saved my life. Fifty-odd of them, and counting.
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Let me by myself
I release fixing my weaknesses, I embrace building my strengths. It’s time to escape the trap of the amateur for…
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Finding Community Survival
I’ve done like I said I’d do a year ago. I found my community. I spent time making sure to…
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When The Mountain Will Move
There’s plenty of people who are around to tell you how to feel about things, how to behave, and how…
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Writing in Community
My community, the place where I feel seen and safe, is writers. My alignment, the people I feel challenged and…
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Future Me
The future me is going to own a large house, possibly an apartment building. The rooms are there for artists…
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I tell stories about the improbability and inevitability of meaningful connection
In December 2023, I was in year 5 of my CPTSD therapy. I weighed 361 pounds. I’d been diagnosed with…
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Choose Meaning
The last few days have been so ordinary, but with moments that feel symbolic and mystical. I’m investing the moments…
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Paper Art
As a child, I always wanted to go to art museums and see paintings on the walls at home. That…
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Paper Craft
Fountain pens, specifically Platinum fine nib pens of various kinds, and really good paper notebooks, like, Midori MD notebooks (and…
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Learning to live
In 1983 …My 9th birthday was the 1st week of July.My sister’s funeral was a week later. July 22, 1983.…
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Goodbye to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
I just learned that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is being shutdown this year. This is my gut level reaction…
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Death Row Mukbang
I think this is the last time I’ll post an essay to Facebook. During a period of my life where…
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Chilseok
Chilseok is a holiday celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar new year. This year,…
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Setting My Intentions
I write morning pages on my computer, and since 2015 on google drive. I started in 2003, introduced to this…
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Morning Page Patterns
I write morning pages on my computer, and since 2015 on google drive. I started in 2003, introduced to this…
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Stuck on 2 Thoughts
I’m stuck on two thoughts today. The first is about sharing. I see a lot of cultural narcissism, where social…
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Mourning The Loss of Your Toxic Self
I just realized something. I think sometimes we mourn for ourselves. When you let go of past traumas, and finally…
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