Differentiate

My new blog is a living blog, because it’s going to change and grow with me. I mean… When I was thirteen years old, blogs were just becoming a thing. My mom wouldn’t let me have one– she was very concerned about online predators– so, once I was alone in a college dorm room, I…

don’t forget me

why do all the holidays make me so suicidal these days? it’s just another day for everyone else to celebrate people like me who didn’t matter when they were alive hey so this morning the park ranger Told me he wasn’t going to help me till he helped everyone in line behind me which made…

Nearly silent sex

After overhearing another fellow female camper lay silent while her husband groaned on top of her for all of the other campers (which was me and only me) to hear, I want to know– Who is teaching women that sex is only for men? Even though I partially know the answer, I’m astounded. If you…

Fears

The reason why I keep my rain fly on when the weather is this nice The reason why I block out the crystal blue night sky full of stars (which I’ve been dying to see for years) isn’t for a fear of bears. when I hear creeping and crawling in the middle of the night…

Disenfranchise

I’m getting writer’s block on my new blog because I’m forcing myself to write my posts in a certain order. I may have to let go of that. My next post on my hiking blog should be Camp 4, and then Wawona. But I’d rather fast forward to San Francisco, and then come back. I…

Ophelia

I remember old people saying they couldn’t remember what it was like to be a teenager, but it’s not like that for me. Maybe the reason my memory has been sustained so vividly, and then so terribly, and then alternatively so, is because of all the ‘trauma.’ I recently heard a comedian say that ‘trauma’…

academy of Sciences

An obese Norwegian woman rises to acquire napkins for her cherub cheeked King, whose eyes have wandered from his Apple tablet screen, outside of his Peg Perrego To contraband chia applesauce packets brought in by an obese American mother who came in through the EBT $3 window and probably can’t afford the pricey Cafe food….

Bay to breakers

oh, no, how will I survive now that I’ve been ostracized from Folsom? I guess I’ll walk all the way down Geary From Union Square to the Sutro Baths pastrami sandwich from Lou’s And 3 gallons of water from Land’s End in my newest Gregory bag urban hiking from street peak to peak Sipping on…

Thirteen

So I’ve been reconsidering AA. Here are some thoughts. I feel like therapy is more effective. Most of the people who I’ve gotten close with in AA have created more drama in my life, not peace. I have had severe mental health issues that have made it easy for me to have low self esteem,…