I’m awake now
After an obnoxious 4am pop, not surprising after a cortisol-saturated day like yesterday, I dozed until 7 when I could persuade my body to take… Read More »I’m awake now
After an obnoxious 4am pop, not surprising after a cortisol-saturated day like yesterday, I dozed until 7 when I could persuade my body to take… Read More »I’m awake now
I was in a van with two friends of mine, a man and a woman, both of them using wheelchairs. We were looking for parking.… Read More »"Invisible disability" gets an upgrade
Healing this disease is supposed to be impossible. In my experience, the word βimpossibleβ is relative. Some things simply cannot be done: scaling Everest with… Read More »Imp-possible
Language tends to reflect upbringing, or possibly genetics, or maybe both. Anyway, there is often a familial component. (I’ll let better-paid heads argue about why.)… Read More »Mendo Acid Trip
Saturn, my favorite mythological curmudgeon, lost his throne and gave way to as nasty a pack of rapists, pederasts, thugs and thieves as Capt. Jack… Read More »How we REALLY were made! π
The ravens almost never come this far out on the water, but this morning two, then three of them, didn’t want to leave my ‘hood.… Read More »The Raven quoth … Something untranslatable
I’ve been mulling Greek mythology as it has come down through my European ancestors and been rendered into my English tongue. Mostly, it seems that… Read More »Chiron the Centaur: Earliest recorded case of CRPS?
Dear Reader … I’m a Yank. It’s true. I may have sparkly blonde hair, find it easy to talk to strangers, and not assume that… Read More »Reverse culture shock, transcontinental style
I have logical and philosophical objections to certain words used to describe me or what I do. I don’t expect anyone to change the way… Read More »Words, words, and words, with a poetry chaser
I’m a walking, talking, babbling, ceaseless argument for the fact that sexuality is not a choice. Integrity is — though that’s not my point here.… Read More »No choice but integrity