I don’t like camping. Raised a good portion of my childhood without running water or power, my life was camping and I worked really hard to never camp ever again. But my husband and my kids love it so I go. May long is a tradition – our first camping trip of the season is […]

When I was 21, I cut all my hair off in a hotel room because god told me to. part one Weeping so hard I could not see through the tears, I handed the scissors over to my eldest cousin to help. When it was finished, my hair only an inch long, all I could […]

I’ve been contemplating originality for over a year now. Many an artistic guru has touched on this topic, unpacking the nuances of inspiration and originality and how those two things can go together. I love Elizabeth Gilbert’s take on it: That originality is inconsequential and what makes an idea feel original is you; your experience […]

Myself, I was raised with this information. I may talk some shit about my Christian upbringing, but one thing I can say about Seventh-Day Adventists is that their ideology puts a strong focus on clean foods and healthy living. Living close to Nature and eating foods that you grow/tend yourself was my early life. However, I did not learn how common parasites are until I was in my mid-twenties, and holy shit balls I can tell you, I was horrified for weeks. I still struggle with bouts of wild imaginings of worms crawling inside my body. You know when you die and they say you’re food for the worms? Well the worms that eat you aren’t the ones in the ground, they are the ones already inside you.