Category: Memories
-
Well that was a long break…
Oops. I took a few-month hiatus accidentally, trying to sort through my disappointment.
-
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.
-
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?
-
An Oceanside Notmas
Sooo this being the third trip to an Ocean on (or around) xmas, I’ve named my xmas-alternative: Oceanside Notmas!
-
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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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?)
-
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.
-
This nervy tree just tried to brain me!
A Black Walnut tree tries to bludgeon me *to death*(!), though I thwarted the dastardly deed at the last moment. Gripping suspense! Also, Horace’s run-in with a tree.
-
What are the Names of the Sierra Nevada?
Reflections on what to call the ancient beings currently known as the Sierra Nevada.
-
On the Bristlecones: Ancients Facing Multiple Threats
On the oldest living beings on our planet, the Bristlecone Pines of the White Mountains on the California/Nevada Border, and the threats they face as the climate changes.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 