Beginning Again
I really appreciate every person that takes the time to visit my blog. It’s 2023, and there are thousands of posts and ads fighting for your attention…
Personal reflections
Doing Enough
I struggle a great deal with being human. For many years, I bristled at people who said to me, “you’re a human,” wondering what on earth they meant. P…
Ryann's Hospitalization and Diagnosis
I haven’t written here on the blog all month because I’ve been dealing with a medical emergency with my partner, Ryann. It has taken almost the entire…
Revealing Poverty: The Legacy of Barbara Ehrenreich
One of my favorite authors passed away two days ago. Her name was Barbara Ehrenreich, and I continue to draw inspiration from her. She wrote with cutt…
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…
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…
Gratitude and Rage
My emotions fluctuate between gratitude and rage. I’m grateful to have a home at last. I’m angry that I had to fight so hard for it, and that so many…
A Year Spent Surviving
I'm going to keep this short because 2020 has been so chaotic and exhausting, it's taken me several hours to come up with those two words to d…
What I Do and Don’t Know
The older I get, the more I realize how inadequate my education was. My writing, my strongest skill, is littered with grammatical errors. I am passion…