: Reading The Odyssey, or as I like to call it: deadbeat dads are eternal.
: **iPhone Setup and rules** This is a tool. Go back to basics: Phone. iPod. Internet Communicator. Live in text. Ebooks, RSS, …
: Trying to do a bunch of repairs with stickers today. We’ll see if this one lasts.
: Currently reading: the Odyssey (translated by Emily Wilson), because I’ve never actually read it, …
: Alchemists rejoice! Scientists have turned lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider. “The …
: All the creepy girls saying fuck God must be true believers first, or they’re just poseurs. I gave …
: Good morning. Doing the weekly check in. Set up a work notebook for when the job starts in a month. …
: Saw Barbarella last night. What a ridiculous film. So much fun.
: Good morning. July 10, 2026. Still too warm to touch. Sunburn doesn’t feel like it’s gonna go to the …
: I remember the first time I went to the Soviet Union. I was so shocked when I saw that there wasn’t …
: Sunburn protocols activated. Ouch.
: Moon Memo 2026-07-07 Good afternoon from Sellwood Library, where a man just had a conversation on his phone loudly right …
: Going to try out water aerobics at an outdoor pool this morning. See if it gives me joy, to work the …
: New morning set up on my phone: calendar and to do widget, 5 icons for rss, newspapers, magazines, …
: I sometimes think my brother has the right idea. He carries a phone that he turns off most of the …
: Home Screen. The calendar widget is a stack with reminders.
: Current reading stack on phone: Instapaper for long reads NetNewsWire for RSS PressReader for News …
: I remember the first time I went to the Soviet Union. I was so shocked when I saw that there wasn’t …
: It’s almost staple day for the notebook, so I’m putting the new one in the cover. Mr Rogers Stamp …
: Libraries with big windows are great for writing.
: Some days the dead just pop up, and you feel the mourning again. Rani and Mira and J and Jaye and …
: Trans as in transfigured. As transsubstantiation. As the new flesh, broken open for you.
: “Remember, it’s not what you are called, it’s what you answer to.” -wise advice from an older trans …
: My goal could be excellence, or it could be openness. I’d rather be open.
: The local murder causing a ruckus. Gus perched on the window, looking out at them and their caws and …
: Last night, I watched a documentary about the “debates” between William F Buckley and Gore Vidal …
: Good morning. It is 2026-04-05, and it’s a Sunday. Watched a recording of The Cure playing at this …
: Military fly overs are stupid.
: My old phone being carried to the next place.
: My friend Garbage Witch about to destroy. I’ve known her for over a decade. Which is wild. Long life …
: Good morning. It’s 2026–07–04, and it’s a Saturday. This is coming from the new phone. I updated …
: Trans people know about excommunication. We should do our best never to do that.
: How do I not add to the general sense of pain?
: Good morning. It’s 2026-07-02, and it’s a Thursday. Put on my swimsuit, so I’m dedicated to leaving …
: I took a bad spill yesterday and split my thumb open. Which means I have an open wound, and can’t …
: Old woman in her little shack, living a quiet life. Everything falling down around her, and she is …
: The meaning of life is living. Showing up for your friends and partner. Petting cats. Writing in the …
: Just before my socials went quiet for today, big news went live. I am sad, and angry, and going to …
: I put on a hoodie a couple of days ago and practically swam in it. I didn’t start swimming to lose …
: Watched bits of Lovejoy yesterday. 1980s antiques swindling cad, sexy Ian McShane, acknowledges that …
: Good morning. It is 2026-06-30, and it’s a Tuesday. Gus gets to sleep in the room now. I switched …
: Wrote a poem in the notebook, and I think I’m going to do that all week without sharing. Sometimes …
: Good morning. It is 2026-06-29, and it’s a Monday. Early morning swim. Then coffee and a book. Then …
: So I applied to 137 jobs since January. And I had an interview with 3 of them: a group home, a sex …
: So it turns out the music my friend’s mom Marlene was listening to when I was a kid was Fleetwood …
: Current tech plan: new phone within the next 3 months. An iPod, a phone, and an internet …
: I am employed again. Start in August. Relieved.
: If I get this job I may invest in a paper encyclopedia. Analog knowledge in the house.
: One of the good things about having a dirty car: the floor mats still carry sand from our beach trip …
: If I agree with Yuval that this is indeed a time to build, then what can I build There are a lot of …
: Good morning. It is 24th June 2026, and it’s a Wednesday. I keep waking up at 5 o’clock or so. Spend …
: Good morning. It is 2026-06-23, and it’s a Tuesday. Yesterday I met up with my friend Emmett, a …
: Good morning. It is 2026–06–22, and it is a Monday. Went to an incredible trans wedding yesterday. …
: Getting ready to head to a big trans wedding. Second one this year. I am mega excited that this …
: Doing an experiment. I’m using micro.blog to post to bluesky, so that folks see blogposts but I …
: The original iPhone only came with a small number of applications: Phone. Mail. Safari. iPod …
: Good morning. It is 2026-06-21, it’s a Sunday, happy solstice. Woke up at 1 am convince I would die …
: Creepy AI bullshit of the day: i’ve used Perplexity AI as a “get answers to questions quickly” tool …
: An article in the times includes these pictures of the number two pencils used to draw the current …
: Good morning. It is 2026-06-16, and it's a Tuesday. Good morning. It is 2026-06-16, and it’s a Tuesday. Today is a bit of A Day. Gus has been left …
: I’m listening to an interview with Brian Eno, and the interviewer is explaining Slipknot to him, and …
: My worth is based on 3 things: do I love? Do I write? Do I contribute? I have 1 and 2 down. I …
: Good morning. It is 20206-06-14, and it’s a Sunday. Going to experiment with posting poems on Bsky …
: defuddle.md maybe my favorite thing on the Internet right now. Takes any webpage, and converts it to …
: Good morning. It’s 2026-06-13, and it’s a Saturday. Typical morning: Get up Pee Feed Gus Make coffee …
: Sterling Writer’s Room, Multnomah County Library.
: Richness For the first time in literally a month, I had a morning to myself and a day with nothing …
: I’m still tuning tools to make it easy to share here. Templates in Drafts. Photo sharing tools. …
: Good morning. It is June 10, 2026, and it’s a Wednesday. Woke up. Thought about spiders. Made coffee …
: Finally watched WWDC 2026. The Apple Intelligence presentation left me remembering the only reasons …
: Good morning. It is 2026-06-09, and it is a tuesday. Heading to a coffee shop after dropping jade …
: Koyaanisqatsi review to my friend E. I stand behind it. What an incredible film.
: Heading to the movies. It is a rainy, cold day in Portland, Oregon, and I’m happy to be seeing …
: Good morning. It is 2026-06-08, and it is a Monday. Overcast day. Maybe not as cold as yesterday. …
: Get up at 5. Do the usual morning things. Get tired by 7. Sleep another 3 hours. Have a burrito for …
: Good morning. It is Saturday, June 6, 2026. Sitting in my beautiful rental house, with my awesome …
: Meaning is what you do, not what you say. It’s what you do. Godfrey Reggio
: Things I learned, not things I necessarily believe
: Spent the day updating VPN protocols, removing unneeded apps from the Black Book, stripping it down …
: When the Intelligence goes out Thinking about the AI industry’s promise of intelligence that flows …
: Remembering the time one of my posts on Instagram went viral, and the eye of the discourse was on me …
: Deadly Sins and Resurrecting Boredom Good morning from the Reed College library. It is outrageously quiet, the students having returned …
: Heading to a library to write, but first…
: Good morning. It is June 1, 2026 Good morning. It is June 1, 2026, and it’s a Monday. Been offline for 4 days (well, mostly) at the …
: Rachel Pollack On the Arbitrary standard Rachel Pollack On the Arbitrary standard: What sense does it make to label some people as true …
: Out of Office is On. Good morning. It is 2026-05-27, and it’s a Wednesday. Canceled the last of the social hang out for …
: Google announces it is deciding to go in on AI search. I want to use a different, more private …
: It’s not that I don’t care. I care too deeply, and I want to stay alive. And letting the deluge of …
: I forgot today was a holiday. No wonder all the feeds are so quiet, and the usual crash of despair …
: Good morning. Made coffee. Read the river. Listened to the trucks gathering up our trash and lawn. …
: I meant to type “no one wants to hire a middle-age transgender poet.” Instead I typed “no one wants …
: Just read something that blew my mind. “I don’t deserve to live” isn’t true. There’s no deserving to …
: The Forest, the Pool, A Cat, and Some Paper Good morning from Portland, where we are entering a season of light. Here’s a few things I’ve been …
: More “download apps to make it so you can’t access apps” protocols activated. This time, zenblocker …
: Good morning. Heading to a southside library to write a newsletter and to process a notebook. Mine …
: New notebook reminder that we have always been here.
: Living in notebooks right now
: New notebook protocols. I want to live with things for a season.
: Good morning. It is 2026-05-16, and it’s a saturday. Yesterday was a very lazy day after swimming. …
: Current status, May 15, 2026. Swam at the pool. I was able to tread water for almost 20 minutes …
: Reviewing a bunch of pocket notebooks. There is gold here.
: Coffee shop today. The barista was aggressively playing dissonant free jazz as a counter against …
: Pipsqueek bagels are very good, but not a half hour on a Sunday good. But damn, once you get …
: I will not become the kind of poet who only writes about her cat.
: New notebook protocols Just got a small leather cover for holding three field notes notebooks. This …
: Good morning. It is 2026-05-08, and it's a Friday. Good morning. It is 2026-05-08, and it’s a Friday. Sitting in the cockpit right now. It’s the little …
: Today has bad news. But I’m persisting.
: On my phone. I don’t have Instagram or discord on here anymore. Maybe that’s a sign that I should …
: Good morning. It’s 2026-05-07, and it’s a Thursday. Yesterday was wonderful. Spent about four hours …
: 2026-05-06-Good Morning Good morning. The cat has the zoomies right now. Wants all the attention in the world. Is eating …
: Waterproof notebooks coming to put in the swim bag. Pencil already in there. Capture devices …
: The line “Does he sense how the stardust of transition sparks my flesh” desrves a better poem. Next …
: Good morning. It's 2026-04-05, and it's a Tuesday. Good morning. It’s 2026-04-05, and it’s a Tuesday. Cinco de mayo and taco tuesday on the same day. …
: A good reminder when I am encountering rural and working folk: “The Rural didn’t vote for Trump. …
: “God is not Almighty. He struggles, for he is in peril every moment; he trembles and stumbles in …
: Good Morning. It is 2026-05-04, and it's a Monday Good morning, it is 2026-05-04, and it’s a Monday. Get up at 5:30 because I’m back on my bullshit. …
: I will not become the kind of writer who only writes about her cat.
: Satanic Quaker Towards a Satanic Quakerism -A personal query When asked what my religious views were this week I …
: Very eventful morning. Went swimming (which was mega busy, but I was able to get a big workout in), …
: 2026-05-02-Saturday-Good Morning Good morning. It is Saturday, and that means I have freedom. But I’m not sure what kind of freedom …
: The world is not coming to an end. We have to deal with it. 🙂 Isn’t that delightful and horrifying? …
: 2026-05-01-Good Morning Good morning. Woken up early by Gus. Fed him soft and hard food, cleaned his box, and then watched …
: Good morning. 2026-04-30 Good morning. It is Thursday, and it’s the end of the month, and I’m doing the end of the month …
: Monthly notebook set up: Out: Penny In: Woodworking.
: Something I did today that made my life 1% better: put a new RSS reader on my phone, one that …
: Good morning. It is April 29, 2026. A Wednesday. Gus the cat is finally eating. He seems to be …
: Queer Solidarity and the Impact of Visibility Tanking | Wayward Curiosity
: Left my phone into the office overnight. Read before bed, then sleep. Have a kindle on my side table …
: 2026-04-28-Tuesday Good morning Good morning. Still damp from the pool. The folks were talkative today. Gay man who lives in his car …
: I will not write only cat poems from now on. I’m not that kind of poet. But I will write about Gus a …
: 2026-04-27-Good Morning Good morning. Supposed to be helping Jade get ready for Gus by taking them to the car doctor. …
: 2026-04-27-Good Morning Good morning. Supposed to be helping Jade get ready for Gus by taking them to the car doctor. …
: Trans Day of Shame Trans Day of Unemployment Trans Day of Unpeopling Trans Day of Invisibility Trans …
: This poem won’t get published in the new yorker
: Current dumbed down phone: two stacked widgets on home screen. top stacked widget includes: …
: I think I may be finally giving up on instagram. I went to the app on my iPad today, and clicked on …
: Swimming gives me a place to not think. This is one of the advantages of swimming: I really can’t …
: You can polarize yourself with ambition. If you sit down to write a song …and you put yourself under …
: The Bible must be shaken upside down before it will yield all its secrets. The priests have censored …
: Going to swim. Going to shower. Going to move my body. Going to take my laptop to a library and …
: I didn’t get the job I thought would save me. Then I remembered that no job will save you, and that …
: pent the last hour reviewing the poems written this year so far, and deciding if I want to send them …
: Learning to swallow how anticlimactic it turns out absolutely everything is has got to be the …
: 2026-04-23-Daily Note This day feels like it is a lot about failure. Reminders of failures past. Jobs I have lost. Jobs I …
: You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. John Maxwell
: We have become the tool of our tools. (Henry David Thoreau) Call me out, Hank, why dontcha
: 2026-04-22-Poem Thinking about passing today. Came up in the discord server, and I was thinking about what I wrote. …
: We have comparison and we have compassion. We have delirium and we have delight. We have delusion …
: Surgeries won’t fix you. They may make things easier, but they won’t fix you. There is no fixing …
: All these girls compare themselves to the richest and brightest, the ones that want to move forward …
: I’m a writer in residence for the Sterling Writer’s Room at the Multnomah County Library. I love …
: Silly things I’m doing to my phone right now: set to grayscale mode turn off face recognition for …
: God is an experience. Sometimes god can’t be trusted, just like a snarling dog cannot be trusted. It …
: Good Morning-2026-04-21 Good morning. It is April, which means the rains have returned. That’s not a bad thing, but it has …
: This was quite good. A retelling of a death and life legend. A birth. A finding of who you are. …
: Good morning. Nightmares last night. Spent the hours before sleep applying for complex jobs that I …
: I have a newsletter that I send out to folks. buttondown.com/moonmemo/
: Good news. Received notice of my 8th publication this year. Nice thing to receive on a beautiful …
: 2026-04-19 I love our little sundays. Quiet as church, gay as fuck.
: Good Morning. It is Sunday, 2026-04-19. This year doesn’t feel like it ever really started. Ah well. …
: iPad homescreen. Couch computer.
: Did you know that you have access to every newspaper in the world on your iPad through your public …
: Preparing for the small ereader. Reatricting to these books. A psalter.
: I think I’m shadow banned on Instagram right now, so this is the only place I’m posting poems for a …
: Seeing The Christophers. I am the youngest person here by far, except the other trans woman, who …
: I have no plans for a poem today. But that doesn’t mean the muse is letting me off.
: Fanny pack season is in effect. During the winter I go around with stuff in my hoodie pockets. Can’t …
: How I computer -phone: communicator, music, and reading device. Blocks set up to keep away from …
: The temple. The cockpit. The work.
: Running your engine’s rev up into the red zone won’t do you any good, and becoming strident on an …
: I woke up in a panic this morning. Couldn’t go back to sleep. Got up, and wrote a very anti …
: I love living in a city where you can talk about growing up roller skating, going to warehouse …
: Moon Memo-You have to Practice!!!-2026-04-14 Good morning from the Bipartisan Cafe, across from the Academy Theater and Thatcher’s Pub, two miles …
: 2026-04-14 Poem. Swam. Eating a bagel and writing. Had a lady talk to me about her old dog for 20 …
: Bought for next to nothing a little e-reader that can fit in my notebook sheath. Smaller than a …
: I wonder if I’ll ever be worthy of all the love I’ve received in my life. I suspect that all of us …
: Quieted phone. The widgets are stacked: Top 1: weather. Calendar. To-do. Bottom: launcher of least …
: The cat For the first time in my adult life, I am a cat owner. His name is Gus. He has three legs, …
: The Punk Rock Good Life The punk rock good life is about living intentionally and making your everyday beautiful. Do …
: Applied for at least one job that doesn’t really exist today. I can feel that in my toes. The …
: Powerful microphones have recorded the cry of a butterfly as it emerges from its cocoon, and those …
: But for Rachel Pollack, transition was never about achieving “a desired end result” or making “a …
: Daily Poem-2025-04-12. Thinking about my grandpa today. Wish we could have left his body on the …
: This is a test to see if things published from the black book. :-)
: Still learning the new system. Can directly publish through obsidian now, so that’s good. I really …
: I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light Of writing poems, Mary Oliver says, I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I …
: Another test to see if I can post from different places. This is fun.
: Good Morning Good morning. it is 2026-04-12. The usual Sunday Morning: unemployment paperwork. Quiet of the house …
: This is a test to see how easy it is to post pictures off my ipad without opening the micro.blog …
: Poems for this week. To catch up a bit.
: Yesterday, while swimming, I forgot to bring my notebook and phone (I often leave my phone. I want …
: Misha Has a POSSE: A Statement of intentions. Misha has a POSSE Good afternoon from Portland, Oregon, where I am kicking the tires and setting up …