Moon Memo

Moon Memo: Set Up, Orgies, and Kindness

October 1, 2025

Hello from Salem, where I drove an hour and half to get here on time for an event that doesn't start until 1, where I was by far the first person here for,...

Moon Memo: Half Mast-Why I'm a pacifist, and why I may be wrong

September 11, 2025

The day after Charlie Kirk was murdered, and it's always lovely to know that flags will be at half mast for people who are ok with me being stoned to death....

Grace and death

September 8, 2025

Hello from the Multnomah County Courthouse, which is my possible home for multiple days. Hundreds of people gathered in the simulacra of community. We are...

Moon Memo: Submissive and Readable

September 4, 2025

Good afternoon from a very hot and very muggy office, at the end of a day that was both mega busy and also nothing special. Yesterday I went to the doctor....

Moon Memo: The Day after my WPATH Letter

August 26, 2025

The day after my WPATH meeting “There’s an element of cruelty in teaching, and in learning.” Nietzche Woke up really really depleted today. I don't know what...

Moon Memo: Reunion, Remember, Health.

August 25, 2025

Good morning from the black book, the super light laptop with the clicky keyboard that I've had to reformat 2 times since purchasing. I don't blame Linux. I...

Moon Memo: Seeds

August 18, 2025

Hello from Portland, Oregon, where I am sitting at my little computer tapping away in a conference work. The office has its lights on and 4 people having...

Moon Memo: Praying for Atheists

August 14, 2025

Hello from Portland, where I am coming out of a heat wave. Didn't really sleep for most of the week. It was bad. I spent a lot of yesterday in a psychedelic...

Moon Memo: Jean Cocteau and his crazy Twins

August 9, 2025

Good morning. It's Saturday, and I'm sitting in a coffee shop I've been coming to since I moved here in 1997. It had a new slap of paint in the last few...

Moon Memo-A good week

August 3, 2025

Hello from Portland Oregon, where I'm hiding out in one of the old watering holes. I remember sitting in here and doing Beer Church, back in the Quaker days....

Moon Memo: Hiding Quiet

July 25, 2025

Hello from work, where I am on lunch break, and stealing a little time. This one is going to be a little short. I'm going to grab some essays I wrote this...

Moon Memo: Trans Family Picnic

July 19, 2025

Trans Family Picnic Trans family picnic was last night, the only thing I feel a connection to during pride weekend. This year, hundreds and hundreds of trans...

Moon Memo: Ursulas all the way down

July 11, 2025

Ursulas all the way down Good morning from Mission Control. I'm work from home today, so I'm thinking about things. Got up at 6 today and got a bunch of work...

Moon Memo-9 Years

July 2, 2025

2025-07-02-Moon Mem\ Moon Memo-9 years Hello from work, where I'm doing a quick update just because I'm trying to look busy while I'm working, and am in fact...

Moon Memo: Do we have the same childhood?

June 29, 2025

I guess CW for talk about teenage sexuality. And anxiety. And text editing Living in Text "I'm Text based."-Paul Krugman I'm writing this on the Thinkpad...

Moon Memo: Desire

June 19, 2025

Good morning from the Albina Press, the one that actually lives on Albina. It is Thursday, which means that Jade isn't working, which means that I get to...

Moon Memo: Are You...?

June 7, 2025

Hello from Hillsdale, the Lucky Labrador Pub, across from the Multnomah Arts Center, where Jade is taking an intro to carpentry class, is making a bench. And...

Moon Memo: Minimal, and she fell

May 31, 2025

Hello from the Oregon Human Society, where I just brought Jade to see my office. "It's smaller than I expect," they said, and they are right. We are all...

Moon Memo: The end of Movie Night

May 17, 2025

Good morning from my office. Rain outside. Listening to Erik Satie and drinking coffee. Tired. Last night I went to a lego convention, where my friend...

Moon Memo: Office Work, Sex Work, My Work

May 10, 2025

Office Work I was able to get today's work done before noon today. This is pretty standard in an office job, but unfortunately I'm now stuck here with not...

Moon Memo: New Job, New World

May 3, 2025

may 3, 2025 Hello from Saturday. I have written a poem. I am drinking coffee. I am very tired. This is a moon memo about work. This is me talking about work....

Moon Memo: Reading, Writing, and Bunnies

April 20, 2025

Good Easter from the Foster-Powell triangle, where I spent about an hour driving to every coffee shop I could think of, trying to find a place I could read...

Moon Memo-Bunny, Quiet, and Anxiety

April 15, 2025

Hello from Portland Oregon, on a warm morning. It's going to be in the 70s today, and the sunlight is pure and shining. I'm home today, my car with Jade...

Moon Memo: Visibility and Pizza

April 2, 2025

Hello from Portland, where I am luxuriating. This may be my last fun week on unemployment. My job interview went very well with the Humane Society, and I'm...

Moon Memo-Spring Has Sprung

March 29, 2025

Good morning from Portland, where I am basking in the glow of another quality interview. If I get this job, I did my best. If I don't get this job, I did my...

Moon Memo: A boring one

March 20, 2025

Good morning from rainy old Portland Oregon, where I am playing with tools, again. I had a job interview that feels like a real job (not to jinx it. God, I...

Moon Memo: Disarming

March 13, 2025

Good morning from Portland, where I am back into my world. It's dark in the mornings, again. It's light later again. The months of rain have returned after a...

Moon Memo: The Fog Burns Off

February 28, 2025

Good morning from a very foggy Portland, Oregon. This week has been quiet. Sex and movies. A little bit of writing. No contact about interviews or work. So...

Moon Memo: February is the worst month

February 14, 2025

Good morning from the frozen wastes of Southeast Portland, Oregon. It's cold, and I'm unemployed, and I'm feeling stuck inside. Didn't get my dream job. Just...

Moon Memo: Time keeps on slipping...

February 6, 2025

Moon Memo-February 05, 2025 Hello from Portland, Oregon, where I am writing a lot today. Yesterday was a brief snow day, and today is all grey mush. But I'm...

Moon Memo: Your memory lies

February 1, 2025

Moon Memo-February 1, 2025 Intro Good morning from SE Portland, where I am listening to Old Amica on my headphones, and am waiting for news about a job I...

Moon Memo: Year of Focus

January 15, 2025

Good Morning Hello from mid January in the little blue house, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, North America, Planet Earth, Sol System, Milky Way...

Moon Memo: Somebody got married

January 2, 2025

Good morning from the bath tub, on a beautiful New Year's morning. This year dawned with me a married woman. It's true. Jade and I got married on Monday....

Moon Memo: I have enough ghosts.

December 11, 2024

Good morning from my office in Century Tower, on the edges of downtown Portland. My personal items are in a cardboard box. I used to joke that it was funny...

RIP Graye

December 3, 2024

My dear Graye died last night. She was a wonderful friend. An occasional lover. One of the kindest, most generous people I know. An incredibly talented...

Moon Memo: The work, not the job

November 27, 2024

Good morning from the quiet. Drinking coffee with a notebook on the desk, a .txt file open, dark and hypnotic, the cursor blinking. I was let go from my job...

Moon Memo: Trans Naked

November 15, 2024

Last night I read in front of a large crowdof queer and trans peopletrans naked, meaning in my underwear and knee socks.It was cathartic. It was healing.It...

Moon Memo: The Tofu Maker

November 13, 2024

Hello from the rain season. A new dark patch just appeared on the bedroom ceiling. It could be mold. It could be a leak. We will find out in a couple of...

Moon Memo: I'm not ok. And that's ok.

November 7, 2024

Hello from November 7, two days after an election where America chose its easy way. What can I say about the election? That I'm not surprised? That I'm still...

Moon Memo: Hauntings

October 31, 2024

Good morning from Halloween. The veil is thin, and the dead are walking through. Octobers have been hard since 2000, when my Grandpa died. When he died I...

Moon Memo: Packing List and PJ Harvey

October 8, 2024

Pre-Note: This is pretty much the last moon memo, but a little different. I just needed something to do this morning, so I wrote this, and I wanted to share...

The Traveler

October 5, 2024

Good morning from the Foster-Powell triangle, where I am officially on vacation. From today (Sat. the 5th of October, 2024) until next Sunday (October 13th)...

Moon Memo: Harm Reduction

September 19, 2024

Hello from Portland, Oregon. I am at an undisclosed location because I am going to commit a crime. I am going to shoplift a little something to remind myself...

Moon Memo: Just a week

September 14, 2024

Hello from Portland, Oregon, dictating this into my phone as I'm sitting in the bathtub. Autumn has come. My friends and I were getting gay tacos on...

Moon Memo: Living in Notebooks

August 17, 2024

Good morning from Portland Oregon, where I am living out of notebooks again. I am 285 poems into the year (there have only been 229 days so far). I set a...

Moon Memo: Dance of the Fireflies

June 29, 2024

Good morning from Portland, where I'm in recovery. Traveled to Nebraska to see my sweetie Graye, for reasons I'll be oblique about in writing (the midwestern...

Moon Memo: Sylvia and Marsha and Misha

June 6, 2024

Good morning from Portland, Oregon, where I'm doing ok. Cancer sucks (a lover is going through treatments. It’s hard). Work is what it is. Wrestling this...

Moon Memo: The Horror and eReaders

May 24, 2024

Hello from the Foster-Powell triangle, where I am at the beginning of a 4 day weekend. I have spent too much time suffering at work to not have a long break....

Moon Memo: I will not be sending it today

May 3, 2024

Hello from Portland Oregon, where the dread has set in. I wrote an entire Moon Memo, but decided not to send it because I was worried that people would be...

Moon Memo: The Poet Laureate

April 27, 2024

Intro Hello from Portland Oregon, where Jade just had to break up an argument on our street. One neighbor was threatening another for violence. Turns out the...