I am on my way to being fully vaccinated! I got my first shot a couple weeks ago and have my appointment for shot #2 coming up. While my first impression was a deep sense of relief at being able to protect myself and protect my community from the spread of COVID, I came away…
Nearing 40, I am learning things I wish I had learned a long time ago. I've long been able to identify my emotions; I may not have had full emotional intelligence per se, but I had a grasp on what I was feeling and why. I have always found emotions to be philosophically rich, a…
Lately I feel like so many men in my life refuse to hear me. I am so tired of having things I say immediately - IMMEDIATELY - contradicted, without the other party even taking the time to consider and think through and ask questions about what I said. The arrogance and dismissiveness are astounding and…
Chris and I were talking this past weekend about how so strange and incredibly disorienting it is to think -- to really sit and think -- about the fact that everything is determined. As in, when you look at the macro world with its natural laws and causal connections forming each moment in its completion,…
Ok, ready for a confession? An embarrassing confession? I watch The Challenge dang near religiously. Like, every week. I even have started listening to a stupid podcast about it. Every. Stinkin'. Week. Chris got me started watching this show and I... I can't quit it. OH THE LEVELS OF DEPRAVITY TO WHICH WE SINK IN…
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.Carl Sagan I recently finished reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is one of the best post- (and pre!) apocalyptical novels I've read in a long time. I feel and think many things about it, but one of the things that it made me continue to think about…
I recently read a Vanity Fair article on the many, many issues in Hillsong Church. It's horrifying. I have many thoughts about churches and church communities and the abuse or manipulation that is often excused as "tough, biblical love", but today I am mostly pissed at one thing: So many of these harms against women,…
I've been going through some stuff lately (not much I can share on this public, though little-read, blog). One thing my therapist reminded me is that I am not in charge of other peoples' happiness. That's their job. My happiness is the only happiness I'm responsible for, and I need to let go of any…
I've talked about this a couple different times (why do I always think of land acknowledgements while lifting weights? The world may never know....). I am happy to say that I finally put together my Indigenous Peoples' Land Acknowledgement. Leaders in my organization encouraged us to put one together based on information and guidance from…
I have a small theory about why we developed ethics. I am sure this has been brought up and developed somewhere by people far smarter than me (the connection between the two has been explored quite a bit), but I thought it worth writing out here. (I mean, what is a blog for if not…
