I have wanted to attend Burning Man since 2003. It just took much longer to get there than I thought. That year, I was too busy getting my life out of the gutter to attend yet another party in the desert. The next year I got pregnant, which is an automatic 3-5 year hiatus on all things new, wild and… Read More
I was tempted to write this post about someone I know perhaps this is some one we all know or someone like them, someone who has led a privileged life, full of opportunities I never had, full of protections I never dreamed of, full of safety nets that just didn’t exist in the neighborhood & family I grew up in. I… Read More
They are posting again. There they go with their perfect pictures of perfect wardrobes and perfect kids. Perfectly filtered and perfectly hash-tagged. There they go again. Posting their perfection for all to see. Publicly pushing their perfect life into my PC. Flooding my feed and I am eating it all up. Clicking and scrolling and stuffing their perfect pixels into… Read More
It was early in life that I learned what most monsters look like. They have no fangs, no claws, no high collared capes to hide behind. Instead they resemble regular people. They fit in, they blend, they walk among us, they hide in plain sight. I was in elementary school when I learned this, although perhaps I had an… Read More
My sister died this year. She was young, only in her 40’s and funny and slightly initmidating and now she’s gone. We would talk sporadically. She was a state away and usually in a different state of mind, one that I recognized all too well. She hurt deep inside where no light shines. She was hurt physically and mentally by… Read More