A perfect day during death season
I began writing this essay a couple weeks ago, then put it aside for a bit.
the suburban wilderness
I'm a neurodivergent, leftist suburban mom (oxymoron, I know) writing about working, parenting, and living well enough while navigating capitalism and the climate crisis. Thinking about post-capitalist futures, always.
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The rate at which the world has begun to burn, both literally and metaphorically, is dizzying.
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Gentle, comfortable, frictionless, and insidious
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A few thoughts about countries on the occasion of a certain national birthday.
Countries.
Days of destruction and creation
(I initially wrote a version of this piece last year to pitch to the now-defunct, but always awesome, Mergoat Magazine. I’m really garbage at pitching things because it takes a lot of time that an ADHDer like me doesn’t have because I’m too busy being cripplingly inefficient at literally everything. Anyway, I revisited it recently and liked it and didn’t want it to languish, so I updated it a bit…
Americans, we need to grow up.
Or: embracing Godzilla style heroism!
You are not a consumer, you are a creator
Whether we like it or not, our choices matter
Neurodivergence, activism, and finding a path
On the perpetual guilt of never doing enough and always doing too much
This is not a game
Reframing the work of building a better world