the archives

Category: dispatches from the loony bin

  • simplify

    simplify, simplify, simplify. it’s been like a mantra for me lately. i have too much on my plate, not enough spaces set at the table, and food spilling off and down into the night. it’s a mess. everything is a mess. i need to pare down. the sheer amount of things i need to do…

  • mother’s day blues

    this day has so many emotions for me, but this year i’m reaching deep to find gratitude.

  • moving from hate to love

    this is an apology to amanda palmer. it’s also my unvarnished truth about the church of social justice, and how hard leaving it has been.

  • Nope, I don’t want to go back in

    Yesterday I realized I first came out of the closet 20 years ago. Actually, I came out of two of them. I was 14 and starting high school. I’d just made a friend based on the giant pentacle necklace she’d been wearing, and our joking about coming out of various closets led me to going…

  • Life in a Pandemic

    It’s all horrendously normal, in some respects. We’re far from the epicentres of Europe or even the U.S. up here in Powell River. While the virus has hit British Columbia, it doesn’t seem to have reached us on the Sunshine Coast yet. That will change soon. Already we have a case on the Island. It…

  • Radical Blogging

    I have been blogging since 2004. I had just moved into the dorms with my best friend Makana, and she convinced me to join her on Blogdrive. My early blog posts were raw and unfiltered; deep dives into my psyche or incoherent rambling. The titles of the posts were song titles, usually whatever I was…

  • insert title here

    Gif used in post. Gods above I am so tired. I have a half-written post that I want to share here on Monday the 27th (I’ve set myself a “posting schedule” here of every other Monday, and I was GOING to post Myth Mondays this week buuuuut, yeah, no) and hopefully that will happen but…

  • Here I sit, with a wolf at my feet…

    …winds at my back, and chocolate in my stomach. Probably a lot more poetic in my head than on paper. Even digital paper. It’s the end of 2019. The end of a year, the end of a decade. Tomorrow we — I — start the march into 2020, the best year yet — or so…

  • Welcome 2019: Goals and Thoughts

    To start: I’m not totally sold on this new WordPress editor. I know when it came out people were PISSED about it, and honestly, I can see why. On the other hand, it has some cool features. What I’m really not pleased about is the apparent disappearance of the word count function — or maybe…

  • 2018 End of Year Reflection

    This month I realized I hadn’t posted here since July, and didn’t want to end 2018 on that note. So, an EOY reflection…and I would say an explanation of where I’ve been, but if you’ve been reading this blog for any period of time you know I tend to drop off the face of the…