Honesty in Hell
Art is always introspective. It is an expression of the internal experience in some way. To observe one's own journey through life can be purely v…
Art Stardust
Examining Exploitation
Trauma for Sale, Part 2
It is not lost on me that my first part of this two-part piece concluded with asking for support. I do not like asking for support, contrary to what s…
Trauma for Sale, Part 1
Side hustles are no longer optional. Everybody has multiple sources of income, and they aren’t adding up for the vast majority of us. Years ago, I w…
(Some) Music that Helped Me Survive this Year
Getting away from exploiting artists is practically impossible these days. If I could, I’d go to my favorite artists’ websites and name a higher price…
Human Size
Humans try so hard to conquer things beyond our capacity. We enter a world that we did not create, and leave it largely unchanged. We did not fill the oceans with water, nor space with stars. Our efforts of discovery always reveal how tiny we are in comparison to our surroundings.
Insecurity vs. Spite
The number of drafts I have saved in my 2025 folder for the blog: about 35 The number of posts I've completed and posted since the beginning of 2…
The Day I Learned How Tests Work
I was ten years old, and I’d never had to write down answers to questions. At the age of 7, my mom taught me basic addition, subtraction, and multipl…
What Is Homeschooling?
Don’t assume you know what’s happening when someone says they’re homeschooling. This piece first appeared on Substack on August 10, 2023. The techni…
Recognizing the Signs of Indoctrination
The role of denial in reinforcing indoctrination This post first appeared on Substack on July 15, 2023. When I was a young child, I participated in…
