This is a script for a five-minute introductory video on trauma that I might make and share any day now. First I'll have to learn to use the video editing software I installed weeks ago. TL;DR stands for "too long; didn't read." This is intended for anyone who would have difficulty reading and understanding my thesis. Continue reading...

I'm calling this my thesis because it's a summary of what I want to share with the rest of humanity, distilled out of what I learned from several years of struggling to recover from my own trauma. Continue reading...

Fragaria is my imaginary country. I've been working on its constitution off and on for several years, and I am very excited to share it. The current version is almost clear enough to type up and post, but not quite, as usual. In the meanwhile, here's a ramble about how Fragaria came to be what it is now. Continue reading...

In the fall of 2022, facing some difficult decisions, I started a practice I call Internal Sociocracy. I hold meetings of the "parts" of my psyche, using a meeting format and processes from sociocracy. Continue reading...

I self-identify as face-blind. There's nothing wrong with my vision, it's just that I can't recognize human faces. Continue reading...

This is a sequel to my essay on spiritual privilege, and it comes with the same content warning. I'm exploring an analogy that occurred to me as I was writing about spiritual privilege: My body is to the content on my screen as my awakened consciousness is to my human experience. Continue reading...

I'm writing children's books! I sent one to a publisher! I haven't heard back yet. Continue reading...

I thought I might be in for a rough night. I've had difficulty sleeping for the last two nights, with no clear idea why.

A walk alone in the dark doesn't necessarily settle my nervous system, rather the opposite, but the exercise can still help me sleep. I chose to go darkwalking. Continue reading...

CONTENT WARNING: This blog post introduces concepts that may damage your relationships with yourself, your fellow humans and/or the universe you live in. Continue reading...

Why is Tamias planning not to send Min to mainstream public school? Continue reading...

Min and I use the words "zworb" and "migi" for the left and right sides of our bodies, respectively.
For directions in space beyond our bodies and clothing, we use left and right, or north, south, east and west.
(I'm transcribing my handwriting and I want to indicate which hand wrote which words, so I'm using italics for migi and non-italics for zworb.) Continue reading...

Why is it important to me to share my creative work under Creative Commons licenses? Continue reading...

(This is how I hold myself accountable for publishing at least some of the essays I've started writing.)