I woke this morning feeling like a fairy tale princess in my big fluffy down bed. The sun had been shining in the windshield for hours, and it was hot enough that I’d mostly pushed the blankets off in my sleep. The blankets were behind me, stuffed from bed to ceiling along the wall, and… Continue reading Driving
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Materia Medica: Chickweed
I love, love, love chickweed. I always have. When I was a kid and we didn’t have any food in the house, I would make salads with chickweed and dandelion flowers and pretend that I could save the world from starvation. For years and years I didn’t think of chickweed at all, or eat it.… Continue reading Materia Medica: Chickweed
Book Review: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
I read this book and fell so in love with Daniel Quinn. I don’t know how I managed to go through life for so long without having read it, except that everyone always talks about it as something to read before Derrick Jensen, and I thought, why read what leads up to what I’ve already… Continue reading Book Review: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
I Was Chosen
I said back in the post about the customer with a gun that I’d tell you about the other time I was scared in a strip club. Here it is. I was running so late. It was back when I was going to school, running a business, advocating for kids, and dancing a state away… Continue reading I Was Chosen
Cooing Epiphanies
Katies dog, Mutt, is trained in Algonquin. She says the prettiest words to him. Wendiha, mostly. (I’m sure I’m spelling that entirely wrong). She says “coo! coo!” sometimes too. Like an owl or a mama buffalo, but faster. I thought it meant hurry, at first, because she always said it when she was holding the… Continue reading Cooing Epiphanies
Just Say Hell No to Wage Slavery
Sooo many people say to me, “I wish I could live in a van and travel around like you. I just can’t be a stripper and there’s no way to make money on the road.” First of all, van dwelling is not expensive. I think I spent way less than $5k on gas and food… Continue reading Just Say Hell No to Wage Slavery
Herbs For Beginners: Part Two
After the first version of this I realized how much I left out. Of course, if I put everything in one post it would be too much, so I guess it’s going to be a progression. If you read that then hopefully you’ve gotten outside with a field guide and identified some of your local… Continue reading Herbs For Beginners: Part Two
Book Review: Julie of the Wolves
This book totally inspired my life. I think I read it a hundred times the year I was eight. Then I ran away to live with the wolves, having learned everything I needed to know from Miyax. Miyax is taken from her father at fishing camp and sent to school in a town, where she… Continue reading Book Review: Julie of the Wolves
Stripping, Class, and The Secret
When I was a kid things were really simple. People with running water and jobs were Stupid Rich People, and you felt a little disdainful of them because they were stupid enough to spend their lives working so that they could spend their money like sheep. Running water, junk food, new clothes. We didn’t need… Continue reading Stripping, Class, and The Secret
How to Dumpster Dive
There was a whole dumpster diving culture where I grew up, so much that the stores started locking their dumpsters. It was okay, though, we stole their keys and made copies of them. I lived in a bookstore then. A few of us did, it wasn’t radical or anything, we were just homeless and the… Continue reading How to Dumpster Dive