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Brian was here all last week ( Read more... )

It felt so good today ( Read more... )

I'm so embarrassed by so many things I feel. I don't want to be anymore ( Read more... )

2012 was another year of big transitions. I started a second job that I actually enjoy and spent more time exploring Portland. The biggest change, however, was one relationship turning from partnership to friendship, and another changing from friendship to partnership... all in the last four months. I went to Cambria twice. I thought a lot about ( Read more... )

1. camp. hike. find a way to be in IT even though I still live in the city ( Read more... )

The last time I saw him, the first few minutes -- extreme relief, then shaking nervousness ( Read more... )

I smell him via a letter next to my bed. I instantly remember a thousand isolated warm moments in what had been a bitterly cold time ( Read more... )

I got into another argument, with another male friend, about the existance of, and, esentially, the role he played, in the rape culture. Right now, I'm going to take this nearly defunct space to try to work out why the conversation left me shaking and unable to talk to this friend.

Growing up, and continuing through now, I have alway had the utmost ( Read more... )

I didn't do this last year, but last year was ( Read more... )