Identity Beyond Memoir
It’s already June, and I feel like I’m still recovering from March. Countless more important things are going on than my personal family drama, so ins…
Personal reflections
Art Worth Making
"Don't use your memoir to air old grievances and to settle old scores; get rid of that anger somewhere else. The memoirs that we do remember…
Living with Existential Depression
People have been asking how I’m doing, and I answer that it’s all the same as it was months ago. I’m still fighting the monster of depression, I’m sti…
Winter Freeze
The Body Keeps the Score This happens every winter - my writing slows down, I sink into existential depression, and I feel like I don't deserve a…
The Devastation of Lost Faith
"I lay in a bed of resistance Chained to either side I really wish I could, reset, rewind Someone has clawed out my eyes I don't know what t…
Only Human
"Enjoy the pain, it's yours for a while, girl Don't run away, your fear, you're getting older We are relying on you and your emotion…
Dear Anxiety
“Trapped in a cold white room I want to know, who'll be there when you snuff the wick? I won't reflect the same as you I want the proof you…
When God Spoke to Me
"Descartes invoked God - in this case, a literal deus ex machina - to save himself...When people run up against something inexplicable, transcend…
Cultivating Intelligent Disobedience
“Loyal dogs, unfailing tool They do what they have been trained to With the eidolons, the minds are full The evil ghosts of old The evil ghosts of old…