A Rocky Part of Normal

There’s a zine I’ve been thinking about making for some time now, modeled on a purple and gold composition book I started for myself some years ago. In my notebook are things like the people who hold me down when I feel like I might be drifting away; activities that...

An Always-Available Choice

Last Wednesday morning, sitting at a lovely coffee shop with an even more lovely friend, I drew a version of this on a napkin for him: The bottom triangle was created in the late 1960s by a psychiatrist, Stephen Karpman. A handful of decades later, David Emerald, a...

Where reluctance & willingness meet

There’s just no telling how many hundreds of people scurried this past week into the path of Hurricane Helene. With every coming natural disaster, it is the same: electrical line workers and internet technicians; doctors and nurses and the Red Cross; the small yet...

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