I have pretty much always been a spiritual person. I spent most of my formative (8 – 18) years growing up in a ultra conservative [...]
Jul 312010
Dec 312009
- lived (in order) in Pleasant Hill, CA, SE Portland, NE Portland, NW Portland, Twain Harte, CA, NE Portland, SE Portland, Twain Harte, CA, and [...]
Oct 102009
“View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.” —Denis Waitley Change has definitely been a constant in my [...]
Sep 222009
“The price we pay for alienating ourselves from the life of our own bodies is great. First of all, we lose the vitality, spontaneity, and [...]
May 282009
life is funny. it is crazy making to try and guess what change will bring your way. i’m trying to learn the art of rolling [...]
Apr 052009
this trip has been . . . amazing. i needed this on many, many levels. today has been particularly hard, in that i just finished [...]
Feb 212009
tonight was . . . interesting. putting me in bar space is always a precarious scenario. i am forced to deal with drunk people and [...]
Jan 312009
I am asking you please, take with you the crappy start that you have brought to 2009. Never before have I witnessed so much grief [...]
Jan 132009
holy crap i have so much in my head right now. this post is really more of a please gawd get it out of my [...]
Nov 292008
recently i got an email from someone i just met starting off with “I know where i ‘know’ you from”. now to some people these [...]
Nov 122008
I love the rain. I just got back from walking to the local coffee shop to grab some spicey chai. Walking I’m the rain just [...]
Nov 102008
in the midst of all the work i have done and am doing, silence still brings me to a standstill. when i am home alone [...]
Oct 252008
words are funny things. the longer i live, the more i realize that it is never safe to assume that what means one thing to [...]
Oct 202008
. . . the best gift is the simplest thank you for being my friend tonight thank you for stopping your evening to come hug [...]
Oct 182008
this week i was reminded how important my friend family is. i’ve been having a really shitty time at work lately which i don’t want [...]
Oct 142008
[last night i went to hear my favorite author, Thea Hillman, read from her new book Intersex (for lack of a better word). as with [...]
Oct 112008
i’ve recently realized that I’ve stopped caring what others think of me. am i . . . . . . smart enough . . . [...]
Oct 112008
today marks the last day of any remaining strands being released closets are cleaned, files are purged, and you are taking it all away and [...]
Oct 072008
the better a person gets to know me, the more they understand my connection to music. I think in lyrics. I am a compulsive mix-cd [...]
Sep 072008
I allowed myself to trust. ok, it’s more than that. I allowed myself to be vulnerable. fuck, I don’t even have words to touch upon [...]