Music Has Many Rests
It's been nearly a month since I've posted anything here, and I want to write something today because I am bursting with excitement. In less t…
Deserving
I spent two hours today reviewing what I'd recorded of the things I did this year. Between Patreon, the blog, and paintings, I produced over 70 pi…
Close Clarity
I entered adulthood wholly uneducated and unprepared for life. I was homeschooled until I was 19. When I tried attending a local university while livi…
Obliviously Obvious
After Facebook went down last week, I've been exchanging numbers with a lot of you, and I've been amazed at how many of you are still reading…
Groomed
You take my hand And you say you've changed But boy you know your begging don't fool me Because to you it's just a game (You know it's…
Heartlessness and Hate, Part 2
In Christian homeschool speech and debate, we were told that we were learning logic and critical thinking. What we learned was a kind of feigned intel…
Heartlessness and Hate, Part 1
Many people have asked me about speech and debate and whether it helped me with my communication and critical thinking skills. Now that a decade has p…
Surviving and Prioritizing
It may not seem like it by how much I’ve made it a habit, but I hate asking for help. The society I live in frowns upon it severely. No matter how gre…
False Fame
The one episode of reality TV that featured my family was a much smaller thing than we thought. Shared delusions are central to relationships with abu…