Being (don’t start a sentence with a gerund, IDIOT) authentically you is a weird, elusive concept. An axiomatic concept. A(n) (adjective) concept. God I hate my writing voice sometimes (always). I was having a conversation with a high school friend of mine (I mean, we went to high school together, I don’t have any friends…

Letting myself feel things is something. For years and through traumas (I don’t like that word because I don’t think things I’ve experienced are traumatic necessarily but people have told me that’s what it is so whatever, let’s roll with it) it’s been easy to stop an emotion in its tracks before it becomes overwhelming.…

I don’t consider myself to be a particularly creative person. I can appreciate creative things and people more knowing that I probably can’t paint/act/sing/dance for shit. But one feature of creative people I acutely identify with is writer’s block – not when it comes to writing necessarily, but life in general. Sometimes you have a…

If yesterday was Björk’s Vulnicura, today is Björk’s Utopia. Long story short, I’m………… ……..happy. I’m not used to this feeling. Have you ever been so used to things going wrong that you get wildly uncomfortable when they go right? Like so right, in ways you couldn’t have imagined? I could start an examination of things…

Day One. I think the most difficult realization of the past few years was that I did everything wrong the first time. I’m not a writer, and I don’t think that what I write is particularly good. It may seem like false modesty, but my writing voice is indistinguishable from my thinking voice. It’s a…

4th of July, 2017 was a splendid day. My boyfriend and I went to the top of the US Bank building in Downtown LA – the tallest view in the West Coast. We dressed up in red, white, and blue formal attire. Over a gin Vesper I looked below as the fireworks of Dodger Stadium…

I always scan Twitter trending topics every morning as a ritual.  It makes me feel connected to whatever is happening as it happens.  I don’t know why I do it.  What am I going to do about some major news story?  What impact do I have?  What am I gonna do, phone the governor and…

There are two things a Los Angeles resident fears above all else: melanoma and parking enforcement. Earthquakes are a distant third, distant solely because it’s hard to live in perpetual fear of something that can happen at any time without warning but hasn’t for decades. As I walked down the street, bleary eyed, to move…

People ask me why I don’t write more and it’s usually because I don’t have the time or the inspiration but I guess those are both just excuses. I’m basically my own therapist and get out my anger in memes now. All the voices in my head are in agreement that it’s a good choice,…

Happy New Year’s everyone, I have a feeling most of our nights turned out the same. Fans of this site *camera cuts to a solitary hobo jerking it in the back of a Carl’s Jr* will remember that three years ago I wrote a post about New Year’s resolutions. It was ok. But it’s 2017,…