An October Interlude (4/4)
I was originally planning for this post to be a YouTube video where I play a modified version of Arna Miller’s Game of Values, where I sift through all 55...
An October Interlude (3/4)
“We don’t make $#!% up.” Been thinking a lot about this quote from June 2020 this week. It’s also been the type of week where I have spent most of my...
An October Interlude (2/4)
The St. Louis Poetry Center partnered with Inktober this year, so there have been a series of one word prompts that show up on my social media feeds. Now...
An October Interlude (1/4)
As folks read the alpha copy of my book, I am taking October significantly slower than I usually do. However, I have never been good at doing “nothing”, so I...
Making "MOURNING|MANANANGGAL" - Week 10 of 18
I have twenty alpha copies of my manuscript/chapbook in circulation. So far, three different people have told me the collection brought them to tears, which...
Making "MOURNING|MANANANGGAL" - Week 9 of 18
On Saturday, September 19th, I went to SLICE’s last writing centric workshop of the 2026 season hosted by special guest Crystal Odelle. I have been waiting...
Making "MOURNING|MANANANGGAL", Week 8 of 18
I know I keep dancing around the fact that I can’t share the working manuscript, but I have finally decided to omit what I think is a banger of a piece...
Making "MOURNING/MANANANGGAL" - Week 7
In two weeks time, I’ll be sending out packets to people who I have already explained the project to or at least alluded to this project. I still haven’t...
Making "Mangling the Manananggal" - Week 5/6 of 18
I’m beginning to realize that I may have gotten my numbering wrong, at least insofar that I probably shouldn’t have indexed on Week 0… I’ve never claimed to...
Making "Mangling The Manananggal" - Week 4 of 18
Let’s talk about momentum. Right now, I have confidently 38 out of the 40 pages of my hybrid chapbook. This up from 34 from last week (or at least it was...
Making "Mangling The Manananggal" - Week 3 of 18
I apparently forget to schedule this, which means I broke my however long streak of Tuesday posting. Ah well. Take this today. Week 4 will be tomorrow. I’m...
Making "Mangling a Manananggal" - Week 2 of 18
So I made a mistake when I scripted out my initial timeline and even as I was making that initial timeline, I knew subconsciously that I was making a...
Making "Mangling a Manananggal" - Week 1 of 18
Immediately, the funniest thing about this whole process to me is that if I really wanted, I probably could finish this in significantly less time than the...
Making ‘Mangling a Manananggal’ - Week 0 of 18
Even as I sit down to plan out the next 18 weeks of my life, I’m staring at the working title of my project going “is that the right verb tense? Should I use...
AMBITION or "One Hundred Posts Later, What Do We Next?"
This whole thing started because one day, I woke up and said “I want to write more.” And because I am adult who can do things like decide when to shop for...
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If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, does it stand to reason that futility is doing different things over and...
(A/IN/PER)SPIRE - A Tale of a Tattoo ft. an updated catalog
The last time I documented all of my tattoos was back at the end of 2024 where I had nine tattoos. In the intervening interval I have gotten seven more. Here...
OHM - A Treatise on Resistance Ahead of Turning 35
I’ve told all these stories before. But given that I’m about to turn 35 two days after this email goes out, they feel… relevant. Ohm, as indicated by the...
"We Don't Make $#!% Up."
“WE DON’T MAKE $#!% UP” #VONABody #VONAStateOfTheNation It hasn’t quite been six years, but as I continue to languish and ponder about about my future...
Musing on Mixed Media: A Review of Olivia Rodrigo's "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love."
[Picture for a second, a messy desk and then picture me entering from out of a frame and wiping mess off the desk and taking a seat.] Okay, so strictly...
