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I have almost forgotten how travel spaces feel. It doesn’t matter what kind… Bus depot, train stations, airports. They are places Not-Here. They are misty and nebulous, with all travelers criss-crossing lives, timelines, experiences, nations. You can be invisible, or a character of interest in the bored eyes of a long layover. There is aContinue reading “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.”

I have never in my life wanted to just… Not work…. In such an existential and desperate manner. I want to stop the world, get off, do some shots, and sleep in. I am actually nervous about going to Copenhagen and meeting strangers, not knowing the language, so far away! I’m DYYYYYYIIING to just SITContinue reading “I just want you to watch me dissolve, slowly”

It has been 30 years since I’ve written an essay for college. My life is so different now. My first go at writing a college essay wanted me to write about something that had an impact on my life. At that time, I wrote about making costumes, and specifically, wearing a gopher suit to schoolContinue reading “Entrance essay for UMass.”

I started using Facebook as a replacement for LIVEJOURNAL of all things. It’s been very useful, but it’s also no longer as good a platform for the way I personally care to put words out in the world. Not sure I’ll stick with it, but I believe I’ll try to use this platform more. I’mContinue reading “Making the switch”

There are times, in my current incarnation of my life, where I feel nibbles at my heels of past influence, echos, as I live in the house I grew up in, taking on a role as advocate and caretaker for my elder father. We have had a series of relationship-states over the years that ranContinue reading “The Father, the Daughter and the Holy Ghost”

I made this blog in order to posit my thoughts to a larger world, to set a more professional tone, to a differing readership, than the ones I have held on platforms such as Facebook (varied and subject to the whims of the algorithm), Livejournal (a place I was the nakedest and most raw andContinue reading “Persona Optional”