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today feels sort of dark

It is raining- after two days of the clearest warm skies (with nothing in them! as if nothing ever WAS in them!) this feels like tragedy- like the heaviest bag of sand. Or maybe I just spent too much time … Continue reading

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not a day

I have so many things to do, in this wet and golden month, warm month, swampy month. Set the course of all eternity! I am, somehow, responsible for all of it. I do not know how these things fall on … Continue reading

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fin.

The blog- one year 174,000 words (believe it) 216 posts 1,340 comments Reader! I have squeezed ever single possible ounce of validation, inspiration, motivation, and reassurance out of this blog in the past year, and now it is time to … Continue reading

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Friends! Strangers!

I am going to take a little blogging break. There’s too much going on right now- I just finished a job, bought a van (!!!) and am looking for another job- which entails driving around Alaska in my new van … Continue reading

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pretty much.

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it’s lightninging

outside with thunder that sounds like bombs and rattles the window-glass. I’m watching this, this, this, this and this. And this, which is even better!

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the lazy grub-hunters of the Salinas valley

On a Friday afternoon in the second week of warm weather after the week of freezing that came after the first week of warm weather, it rained, and the mosquitoes were born. It’s still a summertime eden in the land … Continue reading

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New blogs. Friends.

“It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.” HERACLITUS Refresh those fallen-off or into other things bloggers and dead links in yer blogroll with some fresh new writingz. (at … Continue reading

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Help Fat Fancy!

The coolest people on the planet. Are fat. And have incredible fashion. Fat Fancy is this incredible underground clothing boutique in Portland, OR, run by queer friends and friends of friends, that carries awesome plus-size vintage clothing and organizes fat-positive … Continue reading

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the well

I drove with a friend into Fairbanks today to do some shopping. I hadn’t been shopping in weeks- I’d been living off roadkill caribou stew and my housemate’s non-organic potatoes, and the odd organic cabbage, the size of a grapefruit, … Continue reading

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