In December 2019, I announced that I was back on the blog. Then 2020 happened, and in the past 8 months I’ve hardly posted once a month, mostly to raise funds to stay housed. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone for helping us so far and for your continued efforts to share and donate to our… Continue reading When am I getting back to writing?
Everyone, this is the biggest ask I have ever asked, but I need all of your help more than ever this month. As many of you know, we just met our last fundraising goal to help us make rent since I left my front-lines job to protect and care for Josiah during his illness. This… Continue reading Accessible Housing for Disabled Couple Fund
Every month, I get one paycheck for my creative work through Patreon. I write 6 or 7 days a week, usually about 500-2,000 words per day. This has been my habit for over a decade. I have written several books, none of which I found worth pitching to agents or publishers, merely the practice of… Continue reading The Logistics of Staying Housed
It feels incredibly selfish of me to break the silence on my birthday. It just seems like a neutral time to talk about myself, I guess. There’s so much that deserves attention. I am overwhelmed by how much there is to write. Specific essays form lengthy outlines across dozens of documents that I don’t have… Continue reading Birthday Post 6
Hi everyone, Thank you so much to the people who, since my last post explaining that my partner is very ill, increased their pledges or started supporting me on Patreon. We are still in need of figuring out expenses for the near future. The goal is to get to $1000 per month on Patreon, which… Continue reading Josiah’s Illness Relief Fund
Dear readers, sponsors, supporters, comrades: I’m going to be as honest as possible. My partner is very sick. We don’t know what he has. It is causing every waking moment of his life to be focused on monitoring his symptoms. My full attention has to be on him. For the past few months, we’ve been… Continue reading Help?
I think the roadblock I’ve been having is that I’ve been trying to select one topic at a time and try to isolate and write about each one, and I get stuck in decision paralysis because there are simply too many, and here’s the thing: the things I want to talk about are all interrelated.… Continue reading Why it feels so personal
I have been working on essays about the economy for a while now, and this one will likely end abruptly whenever I run out of time to write. The idea of a gray area between work and leisure came from a book gifted to me by one of my sponsors that I found very helpful,… Continue reading What is Capitalism?
Absurdity in art creation is one of the few reasonable behaviors for us to engage in, finding ourselves as aware animals meaninglessly suffering in a world that exists by chance. The world has always been horrible, the only difference now is that we have the technology and resources to provide for the needs of everyone… Continue reading The Flawed
(Images are described for readers who cannot see or load images.) The maxim goes – almost exactly something Voltaire said but a concept that dates in record to Aristotle and Confucius – that the perfect is the enemy of the good. I’ve been practicing blogging for the past week or so, and I have the… Continue reading The Perfect