“We want things we cannot have. We seek to reclaim a certain moment, sound, sensation. I want to hear my mother’s voice. I want to […]
Category: deep stuff
Strangely nostalgic in a strange land
People are strange when you’re a stranger Faces look ugly when you’re alone. – Jim Morrison “Waiguoren.” I first heard that word whispered from a blank […]
Ode to the Mountains
My concept of home has, throughout my life, been in constant flux. I have known many homes. The first house my family lived in, with […]
Homecoming
Who we are is what we remember of our past. Our memory is constructed chronologically, layer upon layer, over all the years of our life. […]
Free Love, Revisited
*Considering Alternatives to Monogamy in Today’s World I have been in a deeply monogamous long-term relationship. It was an unbelievably rewarding relationship that I will […]
‘Precocious’: gaslighting and the politics of grooming
Disclaimer: TW sexual assault, TW abuse. Every survivor has a different perspective on these issues and the views expressed in this article are based on the […]
do we overeat because of self-hate?
In 2017 The School of Life published an article about why we eat too much. In its reliably frank tone, The School of Life made […]
(un)conventional monogamy
Monogamy is not a natural biological mode of being. The evolutionary tree of primates we descended from has scant examples of monogamous creatures, and we […]
in the wake of suicide
Words of comfort and hope are hard to come by when it comes to suicide. Over the weekend my thoughts have been filled with the […]
#BlackLivesMatter
“So, Cops and Black people haven’t been getting along, I don’t know if you’ve seen the news in the past 400 years. But it seems […]