Category Archives: Sometimes shit sucks
how to know what is important
Sometimes, not matter how tired I am, I cannot make myself go to bed. I will do any number of meaningless, unnecessary tasks to avoid it- stare at myself in the mirror, walk back and forth, straightening things in my … Continue reading
light bulbs, chihuahuas, and writing about myself
My new apartment is two square rooms, a yellow kitchen counter, and the hum of the fridge. It is the click-click of the baseboard heaters and the cold blue light of the stark-white walls. I have not hung artwork yet. … Continue reading
Filed under determined, fail, focus is a form of love, freedom, frustrated, Insomnia, inspiration, love, Mental health, opportunity, Privilege, rain, Reality, sads, solitude, Sometimes shit sucks, the cold, the night
everything
I sleep with the windows open and it’s cold now, as wintry as Portland will get. In the mornings I come up as if from the bottom of a deep hot pit and the cold air bites the tip of … Continue reading
Filed under beauty, everything, Food, I love my friends, joy, love, Privilege, Reality, Sometimes shit sucks, the cold
rain
Last night, in my van, after work, the rain wouldn’t stop falling. Flooding! Endless! Dark and dampening rain! And the rear doors on my van don’t seal properly, it was in an accident, the water drips down on my collection … Continue reading
Filed under Alaska, I love my friends, joy, solitude, Sometimes shit sucks
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Protected: My child army vs. all the soggy vomit cartons of the world
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Filed under Alaska, Reality, Shit talking, Sometimes shit sucks
Anchorage
In Anchorage, it’s really spring. All the snow is gone, and the air smells like dirt. And the sea, too, although I cannot see it, beyond these dead potted plants and ratty driveway, ground down by winter’s ice-age of weather. … Continue reading
Filed under Alaska, Environmental Toxins, Reality, Sometimes shit sucks, The Apocalypse
I’m eating two thousand bowls of ice-cream
And bingeing on electricity. It’s hard, it’s so hard, hard, hard, in the land of TVinterernetIceCreamChocolate, to be a good person, in those hours when I get home from work, and read about making birch-baskets, and work on my dance … Continue reading
Filed under Reality, Sometimes shit sucks
Going private
Friends! Strangers! Passers-by! Now and then I choose to password-protect a post of mine, for whatever reason. If you would like the password to these posts, please leave a comment on this post- it will ask you for your email, … Continue reading
Filed under Reality, Sometimes shit sucks
counting
I took the insulation out of the sauna, ripped it out in big yellow strips, fiberglass sodden with squirrel pee. A rain of stuff came tumbling down around me like wood shavings from the chainsaws, but it was only all … Continue reading
Filed under Alaska, Sometimes shit sucks
