I remember the writer, she was the one who had won the big scholarship, who at the end of the summer session in Prague, said, “I love how you ask questions.” I don’t remember her name, I hope she’s had a good career. I had asked Jack Myers how he squared writing about his loved…

Inside me there’s an aimless gutterpunk goth street urchin walking the streets all night, angry at something but doesn’t quite know what, looking for an abandoned house or heart to squat.

Looking back, after the reading I’ve done this last year, it’s likely that complex PTSD was a strong undercurrent of my Last Major Relationship (TM). There were signs<&Mdash;>Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart always on the living room table, for example. I mean, we talked about past Traumas and traumas<&Mdash;>her family had a history of…

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When I am cut down and harvested for planks and burls, and someone counts my rings, they’ll see a rich, dark ring circa March 2018 through September 2019. Those 17-18 months were potent. March 11, 2018 I broke up with my girlfriend, and launched into a period of personal growth. I moved out and sold…

I have felt something this week in my body, a bounce in my step. While cleaning the kitchen this morning I thought, Oh–is is that I’m listening to more music? Before that, my working hypothesis was: earlier this week I felt a tickle in my throat so I took half a dose of night-time cold…

there’s a decapitated rabbit in the yard, y’all

It is Sofa King cold in our house. It’s fine until the wind blows, and the temperature sinks to below 20. I went to plug in the Keurig yesterday and there was a blast of cold air as if the A/C was on–but it’s just that somewhere between the siding and the wood paneling of…

This was the bargain evangelicals and republicans made with the devil: bow to Trump as their God and savior and he will install anti-choice judges at the Supreme court to repeal Roe v Wade. All the justices knew the score, knew what their roles were. And the Faustian cost is well underway. The “pro-life” movement is all…