Just popping in for a quick hello, and to let people know I’m still alive. I’ll get back to writing here regularly one of these days. I’m continuing to recover from surgery, and I’m definitely s...

On a work trip and decided to drive across the country and have found myself, “deep in the heart of Texas!” Had a few meetings this morning then an advocacy meeting to help a young woman with ...

At wizard libraries, they don’t have Summer Reading Challenges. They do have Summoner Reading Challenges but, most of the time, the prizes just end up burning down a peasant town. An ad ...

You know, You birth this fucking child, You bring it into the world. You do EVERYTHING in your power to keep them alive. Despite them wanting to unalive from the first moment they breathe... On...

I know it’s just Thursday evening but I thought I would get a jump on my weekend list. I’ve had quite a bit of time to think of stuff. It was so painfully slow today at work. I love my job but...

Perhaps to address an elephant in the room… or maybe not an elephant but an obvious feature of what this place has morphed into: I know… I’m bitching about work a lot. I’ve been showing all of ...

 Dear Father, thank you, thank you, thank you for not allowing me to see or hear any mice. I keep seeing mice feces—but not one mouse…until two days ago. It was AWFUL—literally mice feces every...

everything is breaking down... no one is willing to say how much time is left... they fear i'll accelerate the process... i've waited this long... 

The rapper Afroman did not defame seven sheriff’s deputies or invade their privacy when he put out a series of catchy, flamboyantly insulting music videos about them after they raided his home...

That’s really about it. There was a year or two of me in miserable pain but I don’t really feel like discussing it anymore. My pain has … i don’t know if it’s lessened, or more than likely ...

I was in the passenger seat of a truck. The driver had parked and got out to do something. I looked outside through the partially open window-a crank window. There was a little campfire about th...

writing became an avenue for self exploration, questioning life, and mental relaxation, but she wanted to put this new liberty to a test before venturing down this new path. the thought of soci...

And I needed all of me to be on the same page to get it done. I’d been hurt. But even hurt, I wasn’t weak. I’d suffered loss. But in losing, I hadn’t become less. Pain had subsumed me in fire...

I have these odd moments throughout the day. Specific flashes of disassociation in which I am momentarily transported across time and space to some quaint corner of the world inspired by dista...

Man...School...I hate it thanks. I knew I wasn't going to be a big fan of marketing. Or deadlines really... But some of the material makes me want to poke my eyes out.  My grandmother's in the ...