The VA Destroyed My Body — And No One Will Help Me

How a Routine Surgery Stole My Identity, My Health…

LSD, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Cosmic Joke of Being

On Yoga: The Bullshit I Can Believe In

How I Learned to Stop Doubting and Embrace Enlightenment

The Follies of Adulthood

How my daughter reminded me to be human again

A Life-Threatening Crisis at Age 10 Changed Me

You Can’t Always Count on Others

Notes from Undiagnosed Neurodivergent Life

Emerging from the survival state and maybe into the world

Self Identity | Life Lessons | This Happened to Me

When I Stopped the Ugly Madness

Why Didn’t We Learn About This In Sex Ed?

Not knowing what I’m doing is becoming the source of my…

Big Girl Diaries

If it’s free, you’re probably the product.

How I Survived Myself: My Second First Deep Breath

Lessons from an Old Man

Wisdom from Appalachia

Quest for Fire: Oxnard in the 1970s

I was a child arsonist.

Why I Protest

Though I’m often told it doesn’t change anything

I used to be embarrassed to say I liked my job.

A 5-year work anniversary reflection

Charged Phones and Bodies in the Basement

Opposites apparently do attract

How I stopped apologizing for existing and learned to take up space

A newborn love, a pandemic, a…

How to Signal Virtue

We cannot erase trans and disabled people

Writing With Fire

Nature pyrography, and a time-lapse video of the artwork in progress

From 10 Seconds to 10 Hours

How Assassin’s Creed 2 Changed My Life Forever

The game which was released in 2009, when Ubisoft was at its prime, marked a pivotal point in my life. I was in 5th or maybe 6th grade and there was no console at our home back…

The history of my hands

Preparing Indian flatbread

Put Your Food Where Your Mouth Is

How I live my days without the man who started them

‘I Share A Name With A Serial Killer’

What’s it like to be constantly confused with someone infamous?