How to express needs after parentification: don't! Sublimate them to avoid the vulnerability of disappointment. Transmute wanting connection into emotional labor, the need for reassurance into giving validation, the ache for acceptance into creating safe spaces for others.

Leveling up

Neither the first nor the last to wonder what would happen if I put pizza in a blender

Knot theory knot going so well

All algorithmic roads lead back to astrology

So much of life is trying to figure out when “I really don’t want to” means you should absolutely do the thing.

Teaching my cat knot theory so I don’t spend 70% of porch time untangling him

Watching something dubbed is unhinged behavior

Peak romance: asking me to pop your back cyst

Coming in on the full moon brain tide

Not too shabby

Still hoarding quarters

Caffeinating for a 7pm dinner reservation

The sun bounces off field frost, rising over the summit trails covered in freshly made snow. It is 26 degrees, plumes of steam erupting from farmhouse chimneys. You are running along the river trail, shirtless and in shorts, because this is Vermont.