housing
I visited my childhood home
My parents bought it for $240k. Today, it's for sale for $1.3 million
environment
There's No Escape
The mountains could burn and the sky could smoke. We’d be underground.
science
Vultures, Motherhood and the Dead (Year)
Vultures taught me what to do with the dead.
california
Is There Anything Fancier Than a Themed Restaurant?
And the 90s restaurant that weighed each child to price their kid's meal.
tech
This is a rant about beds at work
What about the people at home?
religion
Seeing Stars
Grief, Ghosts and the Impossible Promise of Christmas
food
The Breakfast Burrito in the Age of Suburbs
Breakfast burritos kept my suburban childhood structurally sound
california
Grief and Sex at Mimi's Cafe
Even the suburbs of my childhood had something to lose.
Consumerism is bad, but I truly loved the mall as a kid.
I am in Southern California for the month of July. I grew up here. It’s lovely and horrifying to be back home, for all the reasons homecomings have always been lovely and horrifying. When Odysseus came home, he raged against the developments of greed and lovingly traced the outlines
Manifestation, Eugenics and Flower Oil
I am sensing a bad energy.
white supremacy
Manifest Destiny
Manifestation culture, Christy Dawn and the occult???
california
Get to Work, Children
"Only poor kids have to work to have fun."