How do I sit still while the planet is dying?The bees are deadThe big boss is up in his towerMy face is redYelling, but there’s soundproof glass around himHe’s counting all the mountains of money around himHow would you feel if you got cheated out ofGrowing up?You’re born into a dying world,Its time is upThis […]
The Urgency-Sustainability Problem of Poverty
I spend a lot of my time explaining myself to people who don’t know what it’s like to be truly poor. In many ways, I myself do not know what it is like to experience extreme poverty. What I know is that it is terrifying and traumatizing to be on the edge of not having […]
When am I getting back to writing?
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 […]
Accessible Housing for Disabled Couple Fund
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 […]
The Logistics of Staying Housed
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 […]
Birthday Post 6
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 […]
Josiah’s Illness Relief Fund
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 […]
Help?
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 […]
Why it feels so personal
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. […]
What is Capitalism?
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, […]