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When you spend time away from Instagram…

…you realize how weird it is that we look at pictures of people’s faces all day.

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Bon Temps | Words This Wednesday

Don’t front. You like that wordplay. As seen en route to Fat Tuesday tings. Laissez le bon temps rouler.  I haven’t shot the shit here in awhile. Life is quiet, yet active. Quiet because I’ve...

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Like the Tomb Raider | Skinny Bits

Yesterday, during my sporadic Twitter check-in, I saw a tweet alleging that only women “believe in zodiac signs.” Feeling particularly pedantic and petty, I spent the next few minutes re-tweeting it...

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Skinny Bits | 3.22.19

I should lose the capacity to be surprised, but. The President of the United States is beefing with a man who’s been dead for seven months and I just… I understand grace as a concept. As I’m more...

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To Freedom | #MicroblogMonday

Officially moving. May 1st. To walking in to a silent home at the end of a long day.To sipping coffee and watching the rising sun paint the floors on a Sunday morning.To answering the call of...

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The Kids Are Alright | #MicroblogMonday

In the wake of the flurry of Mueller Report Bar Letter news, I’m thinking of this Vox article: Young people don’t care that much about the Mueller investigation. We’ve got bigger problems. I was one...

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Compass | #MicroblogMonday

What does a non-grasping want look like? I think of it as a compass. It doesn’t really want to go to the North Pole. It just always knows where it is. – Johnson, Steve. “What Limits You?” Unitarian...

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Don’t Mind Me | #MicroblogMonday

Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones was so utterly perfect that I am hiding from the rest of the Internet lest it ruin a good thing with god-awful tin-foil and stan-clouded takes. But I had to...

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Twas the Night Before Moving Day

35 YEAR-OLD WOMAN MOVES OUT OF HER MOTHER’S APARTMENTshouldn’t be headline news, but in my life, boys and girls, it is. For the newly-initiated, I’ve had a few runs of solo-living adulthood before....

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It’s Dark & Full of Spoilers | #MicroblogMonday

Last night, I fulfilled 14 year-old me’s dream of seeing DMX in concert. (For the 20th anniversary of this first album, It’s Dark and Hell is Hot.) As I revisited the album yesterday afternoon, I was...

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