2019 was a difficult year for me. I suffered from more stress than I can ever remember, even compared to the nonstop work pace I set for myself in 2018. For the first time in my life, I had to deal with stress ulcers. My mental health flagged, especially in October; some days, I did […]
At the beginning of the year, I resolved to make 2019 my “year of self-care”. As someone who is constantly moving, working, and producing, I wanted to learn how to value rest, to cherish my free time, and to slow down. I wanted to learn how to take better care of myself both physically and […]
I have written before about my struggles with exercise and body weight. Unfortunately, I must report that my love affair with weightlifting did not last; I lifted for three months and then quit. My reasons for quitting are complicated and layered: I started feeling lonely going to the gym by myself all the time, I […]
This past May, I had the unique pleasure of guest starring on a podcast for the first time. I feature on Episode 21 of Around Grandfather Fire, a podcast by James Stovall and Sarenth Odinsson that covers “topics from Shamanism to Psychology, and from Science to Popular Culture.” I know Sarenth from the online Heathen […]
I haven’t written a blog post in a while, though I had every intention of writing more this year. Inspired by the prolific Gersande, I want to change that, starting with a recap of the past five months, because a lot did happen. To start, this past winter was miserable. As someone who suffers from […]
In modern astrology, there exists the concept of a Saturn Return, which is the point in time when Saturn returns to the same position in the sky that it occupied when a person was born. This process takes roughly 29.5 years, which means that most people have two Saturn Returns, and some have as many […]
Since the first week of January this year, I have spent most of my days writing. For the unaware, my friend Brooke and I are collaborating on our first comic book project. It’s a personal project and unpaid, and we plan to release it online for free once we’re finished. In this collaboration, she is […]
I cannot remember the exact moment I learned about Dungeons & Dragons. I do remember knowing about it by the time I was in middle school, because I recall playing the game one afternoon with my sibling Kai. It didn’t matter that I didn’t know all of the rules; I was winging it, but we were […]
Yesterday, I drove into Washington D.C. to get my third tattoo. My first two are from years ago: hieroglyphs in a cartouche (2012) and my infamous death/rebirth half-sleeve (2014). Since I wanted my newest piece of ink to complete the half-sleeve, I went back to my previous artist, Fernando Prudencio of Britishink. He was really […]
It snowed yesterday morning while I slept. I stepped out of my apartment to a proper winter landscape, an inch of snow covering the cars and trees, lending a ghostly quality to the black morning. The air was crisp and fresh in my lungs. I recalled the trees by the big church that I pass […]