I've written many times about my anti-racist work that I'm doing. Something that hit me hard in particular was the idea that English "proper grammar" is another aspect of colonialism, of white supremacy. This led to a combing through of memories that I've had about proper grammar and how many people I've corrected over the …
Continue reading Consider This: Colonialism in Grammar Police
Hello, friends. I have decided to create a blog segment called PSAs (public service announcements) which will explore some common misconceptions about the queer community, intuitive eating, and other humans in general. I've been seeing a lot of people fuck up this distinction recently. I have studied this in great detail, worked with LGBTIQA+ youth …
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As you may already know, I suffer from depression and anxiety. I've written about it a few times, but I have never shared that I'm on anti-depressants. It's important to discuss this because there is such a stigma, STILL, that people are crazy or weird if they have to take meds. I have shared that …
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A few weekends ago, M and I explored the dazzling Paint Mines Interpretive Park. It was the weekend that got as close to 100 degrees as Colorado Springs has come in a while. It was also hazy due to the fires in Glenwood Springs, but we were determined to visit somewhere we had not yet …
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Free writing: Write whatever comes to mind. Don't worry about punctuation or grammar. Don't use the backspace. Because my mind LITERALLY goes to 100 different places when I sit down to free write, I'm going to try giving myself a topic to write on. *A song I used to listen to religiously but haven't heard …
I have written about my love for Colorado's wild sunflowers that pop up in early August, heralding in the subtle beginnings of autumn. They adorn most major streets, swaying gently when the cars swish by. If you head east on Platte, there are fields and fields of them, their black seed faces stretched toward the …
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My poor therapist has listened to me carry on about death and about being scared of it for months now. Hyper-vigilance is a part of life after cancer. Is that pain my cancer coming back? Am I not hungry because my cancer is back? Is this the time it's going to kill me? Part of …
Untamed is a novel written by the author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior, Glennon Doyle. Written much like a memoir, Untamed is a collection of anecdotal stories that detail the lessons she's learned about women not fearing our own desires. Doyle posits that society has taught us to fear what we truly want …
I once found a difficult word game on the internet when I was procrastinating on some other project years ago. If memory serves (which sometimes it does NOT serve), the object is to change one letter of a four letter word to make a new word. Maybe it was called Word Chains? It goes something …
There's something about the nightly ritual of filling up a large container to the brim with water and nourishment for my plant babies. Then carting it around the house, filling the pots with one hand and picking off browning parts of the plant with the other hand. After I finish watering the potted plants, I …
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