Content Warning: Addiction (a series)
I’ve tried to write this post for over a week now. I don’t know how to start it. This isn’t going to be a fun one; the topic is addiction. Family history of...
Anniversary
Happy Tomorrow is my brother’s 15th wedding anniversary. I mentioned that technically I was with my ex-husband for 16 years, but half that time we were...
I can write when i'm happy
Confession: I do not think I’m as cool or as smart as my bookcases make me appear to be. I have not read the majority of the books on my floor/shelves. In...
Fuck it, cut the cord
Unreliable Narrator The stories we tell about ourselves are sometimes the lies we tell to ourselves. Sometimes we tell lies to tell the story. And sometimes...
Maps
What might gender look like written beyond the blurring of a male-female binary— Lars Horn Voice of the Fish My ungendered snippets. Because narrative never...
Present Day
A new Sarah Manguso novel, Liars. About a woman who stays and the promises he never keeps. And why couldn’t i see this myself for a year. Reading this makes...
Why Hello There
There’s too many words in my head lately. Thinking about how my heart has been ripped out. She (but perhaps “she” would be “they” if they were around) never...
Meet the New Newsletter!!!
Well hello there. I finally finished exporting and importing my information from substack to buttondown. AND you didn't have to do anything! Although perhaps...
At least Virgo season is over
fucking virgos
Honest Question
but my self-worth depends on it
Love, Loss, and Literature
always the oxford comma
Many worlds
I’ll be moving soon, from NJ to… another state. So I’ll be leaving my job at my library. Everyone knew this is going to happen; I have my Master’s now and...
Productivity Notes
I bullet journal. Or, at least I do my version of it. I don’t use it every day, nor do I remember to create monthly/weekly spreads. I used to use it more...
you missed me
i know you did
Once Upon a Time
I meant to write about how I felt lovely and beautiful at my sister’s wedding. I meant to write about lesbian bars and flirting and making jokes about how we...
Miley, Taylor, Madonna
a second line
When in Doubt, Do the Dishes
Or make a playlist
But Not a Real Green Dress;
That's Cruel
The Coffee Isn't Even Bitter
I don’t like resolutions. They end up being promises you can’t keep, either to yourself or to others. Because truths change. Personal truths. Or, you finally...
Don't Stop Believing
My problem is that I get distracted. I start to read something and then get excited over a mentioned book and then search that out and forget about the...