unpacking – Pantsless Weirdo

Sixty-third

Posted on June 5, 2019 (September 27, 2019) by PantslessWeirdo

Dear Mama, Happy birthday. You would have been 63 today. You would have hated being in your 60s, I’m sure. Still, I think you would have aged well given the chance. I hadn’t realized how little I have written here because I have written here, I just haven’t published. This blog has 85 published posts, …

Tonic immobility

Posted on February 3, 2017 (August 30, 2019) by PantslessWeirdo

For two weeks after the election, I walked around in a thick haze of confusion and grief. I grieved for the nation I thought we were, for the terror that many people I care about were now facing, for the uncertainty of the four years that lay ahead. We need to give him a chance! People …

Accustomed to privilege

Posted on December 30, 2016 (August 30, 2019) by PantslessWeirdo

Our bedroom is illuminated by a single red light bulb in a lamp on the dresser as I contort my body to slip out of bed. It is not quite 4:00 AM. Green curtains are drawn over mini blinds against the dark and cold outside, and steam from the humidifier billows into the air. The …

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Sixty-third

Tonic immobility

Accustomed to privilege