Karate chop point. Even though I’m a terrible parent, I choose to love and accept myself just as I am. Karate chop. Even though I’m the...

Today was weird. Normally, I’m excited when I try new things but today was disappointing. I was talking to my therapist on Wednesday. Please don’t think badly of my therapist because I really like him. I was expressing how I’ve been hung up on my dead family for thirty-plus years and can’t get over it and, OK for real, I Iike my therapist, so I don’t want anyone to judge his advice. He recommended that I talk to a psychic. I’ve always wanted to get a reading ever since I firs

I read that people who grow up with ADD have a fifty-fifty chance of becoming addicts because they lack neurotransmitters like dopamine that make their executive functioning work properly and that addicts respond unnaturally to rewards. Hmmmm, sounds familiar. And it made me kind of depressed. Made me depressed? It reinforced my natural tendency towards catastrophic thinking because there were no cures, the only advice was to get sober and to meditate. Kill me. Scooby was b

Today, I had to decide whether to wear my COVID mask or my N95 fire-season mask. I’m afraid that maybe living in California isn't safe...

One of my favorite professors, Matthew Clark Davison just published his first book, Doubting Thomas. So beautifully written, sad but...

I had spent part of the summer with a new friend who taught my other friend and I how to turn a Pepsi can into a pipe to smoke pot....

Today I was tapping about seventh grade. Ugh. It’s embarrassing. It was embarrassing when it happened, seventh grade was in general. And...

I don't like this topic. It’s boring. My ponytail is weighing on my weave and giving me follicle pain disorder. Either the world got...

I went to a great online writing class led by Fenton Johnson. (I’m pretty sure he is the same Fenton who Pam Houston named her dog after...

I'm now zooming with my writing group instead of meeting in person and it's so not the same. On the bright side, no COVID. I’m pretty...