So. Hi, Ghost. After my last post about my mentally ill neighbors and their wild treatment of me, as well as my totally off-the-charts insane physical and mental reactions to their insanity, I had a profound realization about myself this evening. I am not trustworthy. Faith in other people, and other people’s faith in me, […]

You’re in for a bumpy ride, kids. There’s more to the story of the mother-daughter duo who are harassing me (truly, it’s not the other way around). I’ve written out everything in a timeline fashion so I can have a record of each encounter. If you want the back story, read my last (exhaustively descriptive) […]

One of the most bizarre things that’s ever happened to me, happened this week. To start the story, though, I have to go back to two weeks ago, to a completely harmless and kind neighbor experience, which indirectly and completely unrelatedly led to a hostile and threatening experience with another neighbor. To back up and […]

It’s been an absolute shit year. My cat died. I miss my ex like crazy. My dad didn’t talk to me for 10 months. I’m lonelier than I’ve ever been. I didn’t take good care of myself, as a rule. My only date was with a felon of the worst kind. I all but stopped […]

I recently attended my first bicycle convention. Held at Portland’s Zidell Yards, the MADE gathering showcased handmade bicycles and bicycle components from makers and artisans. As my friend S likes to point out, all bikes are handmade, but this was a showcase dedicated to the small business owner and independent craftsman, as far as I […]

I recently watched a YouTube video by a man called Al Humphries about embracing the idea of micro-adventures. Al Humphries is a macro-adventurer. Like, we’re talking trips to the South Pole and kayaking across the Atlantic Ocean. One evening, in a tent in a remote wilderness somewhere, a friend of his made an offhand crack […]

I brought Winter home today. Her ashes are in a carved box, and they were accompanied by her paw prints on a card, in ink. I put them on her little bed in the sun, with her hairbrush and favorite toy. The hairbrush still has her beautiful gray fur in it. I feel like our […]

I seem to have made it past the inconsolable weeping phase. Now I just sat around my apartment for the last two days, staring at the places where Winter is so vividly etched in my memory. I see her little bed on the built-in bookshelf. I see her stretched out in the sun, making her […]

Warning, all ye who enter here. This is some seriously sad shit. Regarding the last post: So, I do what I do in these situations, when life throws me an absolute pile of garbage: I write about it. I write. I write immediately, and full of feeling. And in this case I posted about it […]

Walking my dog down my street in Albuquerque in the summer of 2016, I saw a small gray kitten climb up into the engine of a parked car. I took my dog home, and lured the kitten out from under the car with some food (she was very hungry). I couldn’t grab her, and she […]