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Everybody Knows Someone

This is a photo of me at 17. It was taken by my boyfriend at the time. I weigh 115 pounds in this photo. That fall, I was seeing a therapist again about my eating disorder. It was probably my third or fourth time in therapy since I was 14. It was my third relapse.… [Read more…]

Dead Heroes

Hunter S. Thompson died February 20th, 2005. He was a journalist. A writer. A husband, for a time. A father. A man who stayed a close friend to his former wife. A man who lived and loved with his second wife. He was fierce and weird, talented, called gonzo by Bill Cardoso, embracer of the… [Read more…]

Lockdown

I have a story I tell people, from when I was a news intern. I generally leave out much of the following details when I do so. I always tell it like it’s a funny story. I laugh and grin over dinner with friends, or drinks in the bar, as I tell and retell it.… [Read more…]

Games Help Us

For the first time ever, I saw Jane McGonigal’s  Ted talk “The game that can give you 10 extra years of life” this week. Predictably, I did cry a bit. I also wondered why no one I knew had ever brought up this video up. I have a social group heavy with Ted talk fans, but… [Read more…]

First Space, Next: Seattle

I don’t live in Seattle full time right now. I’ve been bouncing between cities and assignments since November of 2012. I want to be home, badly. I’ve got a great housing situation lined up (likely starting in March) but I’m not bringing it enough money right now to make the move. I need a job… [Read more…]

Up Up and Away

This month continues to be wild and crazy and did I mention crazy? I only have a handful of Save vs Sexism installments to go before my contract is up at Bitch magazine. My GoFundMe to get to the NASA Airborne Earth Sciences Social succeeded, and anything left over post-trip is going to practical things,… [Read more…]

News in Brief

It’s been a pretty crazy new year so far. In addition to trying to keep up with finishing out the last bits of 2012′s projects, there’s been: celebrating my birthday a short story acceptance job leads housing leads family genealogy research renewed for my weekly column continuing an 8 week column approved for social media… [Read more…]

Closing Out The Year

This is the most rushed, bittersweet, weird, aggravating close out I’ve had in a long time. Though if I weigh my options, I’d rather be deep in writing and revisions than just about anything else. Like hiding on the second floor of my house, waiting for the cops to catch a shooter in my neighborhood.… [Read more…]

Bullet Casings

In 2006, I was attending university and majoring in Psychology. My focus was abnormal and criminal psychology. I studied things like Jonestown and Kip Kinkel. I sat in a classroom as we attempted to profile criminals, understand mass murder, and make sense of how to respond to the world—to diagnose it and somehow make it… [Read more…]

#1reasonwhy

I did, while very intoxicated, attempt to elucidate my thoughts and feelings on this week last night. More than one thousand words later, I was no closer to what felt like an adequate response. I have been asked about how I feel, about why I shared my experiences, I have been trolled repeatedly, and I… [Read more…]