Ah, the memories — It was a time out of time, when traffic stopped, cruise ships docked, all crowds were abolished and people kept a respectable distance from each other. Frankly, it was an awesome time to be neurodivergent. I hate crowds, I am uncomfortable with close human contact (except from my friends, and…

Have you ever met anyone with nothing wrong? — Look back at your life: have you ever had to question everything about it? Has anything gone wrong? I’m talking seriously wrong, like the upside-down wrong where you question injustice itself. Not questioning your existence means that you blithely go forward in life without considering the plight of the people…

Bring on the chaos I must purge all materials all the accumulated years of trash and rocks and sticks I stored like a rat upon each change of location — Contemplate this fucking iron. I do not use the iron, have not used the iron for long years. The iron…

Here’s why some days are harder than others — Sometimes I wake up a different person than the day before. I might have gone to bed with swagger, confident in myself, happy that the world lines up with what it’s supposed to be. In the morning I am unsure. I swing my legs over the bed and the cat…

Christian Nation is a dangerous and illusory concept I went through a Kurt Vonnegut period in my teenage years, as one does. The concept that sticks with me all these years later is the granfalloon, “a proud and meaningless collection of human beings.” Granfalloons are everywhere. Sports fans participate in…

Why Medium matters Writing is a solitary pursuit, a pursuit built out of a longing for audience. Maybe you’re writing for yourself, expressing yourself, or any of a number of reasons, but if you write for Medium, you are searching for company. That’s what makes Medium so successful; writers are…

In fighting the entry of this planet’s soil onto my carpeting, I am once again sullen and resentful at this prospect, this vacuuming. Sucking it all up is too much effort, in the scheme of things in the face of famine, fire, influenza, and worse. My personal autonomy is imperiled…

Suffering is glorified. Why? Everyone must work. Why do we have a culture of sacrifice and pain? Why do we punish, rather than encourage? Take student loan forgiveness, for instance. People argue against government forgiveness of loans in that “other people had to pay loans back” so therefore everyone in…