Category: Writing
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Well that was a long break…
Oops. I took a few-month hiatus accidentally, trying to sort through my disappointment.
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Notmas 2022: Low Tide at Imperial Beach
Some photos and a video from Imperial Pier in San Diego for my now-annual not-Xmas (aka Notmas) pilgrimage to the sea.
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Home Again: or, What is this feeling?!
I made it Home. As in, I made it back to this place I’d made my Home. But what even is ‘Home’ to someone who didn’t grow up with that?
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An Oceanside Notmas
Sooo this being the third trip to an Ocean on (or around) xmas, I’ve named my xmas-alternative: Oceanside Notmas!
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The Beautiful Regularity of the Periodic Table of Elements: or, Really no one thought maybe I was autistic? (Or is that even a label I should have known back then?)
No one noticed I was probably autistic even after I memorized the whole Periodic Table in eighth grade (along with the 27 Amendments to the US Constitution). But am I better or worse off for it?
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Said the Stork to the Snake (Or, Thoughts are silenced by snapping beaks)
The Stork has power over the Snake. Stork and Snake both know it. Yet somehow Stork still manages to persuade Snake to serve himself up for a her meal. Peitho, Persuasion, is a delicate yet powerful skill.
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My Favorite Crabapple, My Oldest Friend
A few photos of the spectacle put on in April 2021 by my favorite tree in the world/my oldest friend.
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Actually Autistic Moment of the Day: “of”
One of my earliest memory-fragments, puzzling over the spelling of ‘of’ versus the sound of ‘of’. It makes a lot more sense on this side of realizing I’m actually autistic.
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Neurodiversity Reading List, Pt. II
My neurodiversity reading list grows by the day and three more books have made it onto my shelves before I’ve finished the first set.
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What I’d tell my younger ‘autistic’ self now
Things I’d tell my younger ActuallyAutistic self: basically, they’re right, and the empowerment of acceptance.
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Teaching is a Laborious Magic
I really love teaching college students. It’s an awful effort, as in its both an intense slog and the results are awe-provoking, and in retrospect the process looks almost like a kind of interpersonal magic.
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Neurodiversity Reading List, Pt. I
A few books I recently ordered on neurodiversity; stay tuned for a post or two after I tear through them. :D
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Monsoons in Tucson and Fall in Michigan
Watching a record monsoon season from over 1,600 miles away while here in Michigan it’s already fall. (Plus, are the storms in Michigan changing into something like a monsoon, or is that just me?)
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If you tell me “It’s like Portuguese author Saramago’s…” you can stop: I’m already buying a copy.
Excitment for Mohsin Hamid’s new book, compared by Michel Martin to Saramago’s Blindness. Also: read some Rushdie!
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Dancing with Britney Alone
If I were ever to tell a story at a Moth Story Night, this is the story I’d tell right now.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 