A year ago today I moved to Berkeley. I packed up my house with Myles on North Street, and moved west, thinking I would be there for a while ( Read more... )

my mom's really sick. they're saying it'll be over in a few weeks.
i don't know how to tell anyone. i don't have the energy.

i'm back up at the farm. i'm pretending that i only have to be planing the garden, not busting through the 15,000 things stacked up on my to-do by friday list. i just want to work in the garden and ride horses through the woods.

i'm tired and content... and waiting for sam to get here.

i keep saying that if shit keeps going the way it's going i'm going to have to turn away from social work, and become an abortion provider. i wonder what my breaking point will be. maybe i should not wait around for a breaking point and just head in the direction of reproductive health now ( Read more... )

"berkeley really is northampton's wet dream." -chana

"I can see why people fall in love with you on the farm. when you were herding the horses and they were charging right at us, I fell in love with you. you were so confident, so in your element. you're supposed to be a cowgirl."

i finally insured and registered my car today.

i remembered that i fucking love driving. particularly my car. i got in it this afternoon and it was all sun-warmed and i drove with the windows down. i even love the way it smells.

yeah.

one of the major challenges to post-college 20something life ( Read more... )

i've been out here for a week and so far it's awesome, hard, wonderful, lonely, peaceful, necessary, and exhausting. i'm walking everywhere, getting a feel for the place, constructing my mental map, taking it all in ( Read more... )

i leave this coast at 10:30am on Saturday, March 3rd.

just so that's out there.