I paid off my student loans Friday and am closing on my first house Monday. I’m scared and excited and wondering what exactly I’m doing. At least I’m still keeping somewhat crazy by texting and calling a man I “met” on tinder when he was in the states. He lives in Europe. Or at least has a European phone number on…

My feminist cats, Frida and Diego. They know the importable of support. (Diego is the orange one)

It doesn’t sound creepy at all!! It sounds like you are going through hard times that will test you but put you in a better place. I feel old for what I’m going through now. Writing is the scariest thing for me—I started doing workshops and classes last year which helped tremendously. I was scared I was awful and…

I’m in the process of buying a house! No help from anyone, just me, myself, and I! And someone read a draft of my book and said I have chops, and another person said I’m a brilliant writer! And I took a giant nap today, bookendespite by my snoring cats.

Attracting money to PSI, but how many people even know what PSI is or how they can find out about it from this? It could be done better. And less exotisizing. If that’d a word.

It is poverty tourism. Build the local skills, don’t bring in outsiders who make locals doubt the skills of their community healers. Provide training to locals, build local capacity. It reinforces the narrative that people in ‘the country’ of Africa can’t take care of themselves. And look how great we are helping…

I’ve had mostly fair to middling dates, one or two good ones. I’m cranky and call people out on stuff which doesn’t lend itself to a great date except for a very particular kind of dude. But I’m also not being picky enough, though one guy told me I’d be all alone forever if I didn’t just settle...

Is that the Portland airport?

Feel you, feel you, feel you. I was crushed recently by a relationship ending that I felt like I had no rights to be crushed by the ending of it. Then I decided screw it, you can be emotionally invested in a short time and it sucks when relationships end full stop. I’m very sorry you are going through this. I hope it…