I think I might be having a mid-life crisis. Which in itself is kind of funny because my entire adulthood has been a crisis. I think that’s true for most millennials. We were in college (some of us) when the market crashed and all of a sudden all the safe jobs weren’t safe anymore. Even […]
Category: New Moon, New Me
All the hope I had when I was young, I hope I wasn’t wrong
This one’s going to be a bummer. I want to write about grief. My blog post is late this month (again) because I was in LA for a little over a week, wondering if my dad was going to die. Sorry to jump right into it but that’s just how this post is going to […]
lifetimes.
Originally I was going to write a blog post about this: In my newsletter, I mentioned that I no longer feel safe in the US because while I’m not trans, I am trans-adjacent and shit is looking real bad. I thought that was a pretty basic thought but I had two different cis people tell […]
Don’t want beef with you, I do not have the energy
Woof. Did February steamroll over anyone else? This month felt a bit like an avalanche. Between everything happening on the federal level which continues to look more and more like technocracy (I learned the meaning of that word this month. I hate that I learned the meaning of that word this month), my job has […]
I was looking at the stars, you were looking at me
I think about this quote every day: “This is what happens when you have an artist temperament but you are not an artist.” It’s from Mad Men. And it’s a moment that’s been burned in my brain since I saw it years ago. What’s it mean to be an artist who isn’t successful? You’re still […]
Well well well
Woof. The state of the world makes me want to jump off planet. I’ve made the complicated, messy decision to leave Meta. And holy fuck has that been hard to stick to. I’m worried about losing all of the passive connections I have that have meant the world to me. I’m worried that there is […]