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I Need(ed) a Budget (…do you?)

This post is extrapolated from a set of tweets I made on 7/5/2020, which I decided to save and expand upon here because goddamn is twitter lousy for organizing, searching, or archiving tweets. If you are just here to find out more about the YouNeedABudget app, jump...

A Breath, Then a Pause

A Breath, Then a Pause  Oddly, the comforting constant of my life has become the air conditioner switching on and off. It is always there in the background, and I can always hear it because generally, I’m always alone. This is not something that bothers me. Being...

Life Like an Ent

Life Like an Ent The student looked at me in awe. “You were a vegetarian for years?” The idea amazed her. I nodded, not quite sure where this deep admiration was coming from. Yes, I was a vegetarian for years. I would say for the majority of my 20s I was a vegetarian....

Red Tide is OUT

Red Tide is OUT As I write this, today is February 14th aka Valentines Day. Everything is awash with blood red decorations and it seems so very symbolic because it is also the day that signals the end of my beginning: today is the first day of menopause for me. For...

Freedom is a Word

Disclaimer: This is an essay about the emotional state of freedom as a mindset, but I do not buy into the belief that we create our entire reality — we live in a world with other people, with politics, with wars, with disease. Externally, we are all restricted at some...

Instinctual

My M/M/F book Wolves of Harmony Heights was written back in 2015/2016, and has zilch to do with my recent (as of late 2019) dive into Chinese webnovels and dramas. But as this dive keeps getting deeper, I realized that in writing that book I was searching for novel...