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At the Stoplight, As Elsewhere

Wed, 20 May 2026 08:15:35 -0500

I’m sitting in the car at a red light. It’s 6:10am, just on time to get my sisters to school. The man with the hand wiper and the Pepsi bottle full of diluted dish detergent walks up the car expectantly. For once, I let him. He smiles wide, happy to have a customer that wasn’t first a hostage this early in the morning.

Art and Fear

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So as part of my partly self-imposed stint of unemployment, I’ve had a bit more time to read, which is a great thing for me. I’ve always found reading to be relaxing and informative by nature. In particular I’ve been reading Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland. It’s a book that wears its contents on its sleeve. It primarily concerns itself with the difficulties that artists face when trying to create their (our) work. It covers a range of these from the eternal feeling of being an imposter, the lie that we tell ourselves that “if I just do this then I’ll be an artist”, dealing with the desired to be accepted, perfectionism and a whole host of other, well, Perils™.

Redesign in Progress

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:50:18 -0500

Hello! It has once again been many months since I last updated this blog. One of the reasons for that is that I’ve found it less and less fun to get this blog to do what I want it to do. As a result, I’ve begun to spend some time making a theme for this site from scratch, which is proving to be a learning experience, but I’m excited about it as it means it will be a lot easier for me to to share some of my more tech-coded (I’m so funny) sketches and ideas with you all.

There Is Still Time

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So today I was thinking about HRT, as one does. Diabetes runs in my family, and if you know even a little bit about diabetes, you’d understand that it’s a disorder of the pancreas which is the organ of your body that produces insulin¹ , a hormone that allows your body to make use of glucose for energy. And given that I do eventually want to replace the testosterone in my system with oestrogen, I was wondering what, if any impact feminizing hormone replacement therapy would have on my risk for diabetes or creating complications therewith. That led me to start reading a few academic papers. From what I can tell, the science on this seems to conclude that there’s no proven increase in diabetes risk for trans women using HRT ² ³ , so that’s great!

Fun Little Sites

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:41:46 -0500

So this page is for one thing and one thing only: Fun little sites I’ve stumbled across on the internet. It will be updated whenever I stumble across a new fun little site on the internet. I want to do this because we live in a time where so much of the internet exists solely for commerce and the exchange of money or accumulation of capital that it’s nice to remember that people are and always will be creative and share that creativity with the whole world.

2025 11 17

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:51:00 -0500

And this is how I disappear.

It starts with a scream, a wail that pierces the air and finds its way into the heavens. Or it would if I let it out of my head. In here it swings around like a wrecking ball, shattering me. I feel like I’ve been absent. Absent from my own life for more than I’ve been here for it. I feel like I’m still walking around like a ghost would. I touch a few lives here and there and then I’m gone. Now my vestments have changed, my howls might be a little more audible and my form slightly more opaque, but a ghost I remain. I still hardly see myself in the mirror. I still feel a pull towards something outside myself that I can’t quite nail down. Unfinished business I guess.

Hurricane Melissa Relief

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:35:30 -0500

This is a living document to keep track of ways you can contribute to the recovery efforts for the countries and peoples affected by the tragedy that was Hurricane Melissa, as of writing, the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in recorded history. It’s important for us to recognize that not only is Hurricane Melissa the strongest hurricane on record, it likely is setting a new precedent for the kinds of storms we in the Caribbean can expect to deal with in the coming years as a direct result of anthropogenic climate change. Is that scary? Yes. Fuck yes. But it’s real. It’s not fearmongering to follow the trends we’ve been seeing and expecting to see for the past several decades as primarily “first world” countries continue to burn fossil fuels at rates that are both utterly unnecessary and actively deadly.

A Brush With Homeopathy

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:52:19 -0500

I’ve been in Cartagena, Colombia for the past few days and so far it’s been a great experience. I’ve been enjoying the food and my Spanish is improving very quickly. Unfortunately, yesterday I started coming down with something. After my classes classes, I went to the pharmacy, head a bit swimmy and not fully myself. I asked the pharmacist for something for a dry cough (I had medications for my other symptoms already) and when he put down the cough syrup in front of me, I didn’t look too hard at it, assuming that whatever he’d put in front of me would be sufficient for my symptoms, so I purchased it and went about the rest of my day.

Background character

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:18:20 -0500

So note from me in the future, so I wrote this on the date you see on the post, but I’m writing this a couple months later, just to say, I’m fine, don’t worry, I just feel like putting up the stuff I’ve written for the blog even when it’s not… like… pleasant to read because this is more for me than for you I guess, so yeah, I’m fine. Also any posts with the #vent tag are going to be something like this.

Mango Jam

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:38:47 -0500

A simple recipe for mango jam, based on this recipe by Sarah Carey and using these canning instructions.

Because I wanted this jam to set as a gel, I used a 1-to-1 fruit to sugar ratio by weight, instead of the 2-to-1 ratio recommended by Sarah Carey’s recipe.

2025 09 16

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Checking in and making stuff

So it’s been a while 😅…

My last post was a super short note on doing less. That note came from a place of still somewhat feeling like I was overextending myself despite moving back home and being extremely unemployed. The question really is what’s been keeping me so busy? Truth be told, a lot of it has been stuff I do want to do. It being summer has meant a lot of my friends who are in school either here on in the U.S. were around and available, so we spent a lot of time going out, hanging out and generally touching grass in each other’s company, so that I can’t complain about too much.

Orchid

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Drawing of an orchid with linework done in red Bic pen. The petals of the orchid are coloured a pinkish orange. The orchid plant also has an unopened flower branching off from its stem below the fully opened flower

2025 08 03

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:44:54 -0500

I am once again discovering that the correct amount of stress I am capable of handling is simply, “less”.

2025 07 28

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:20:44 -0500

There is no dog shit in my yard

There are no begging eyes looking up at me as I eat

There are no bites taken from the mangoes that fell last night

There is no container to save our leftover bones for the morning

A quick update

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:22:26 -0500

Just a quick one today! So there are a couple changes that you might have noticed already. That little wifi-looking symbol next to the site’s title is the link to the RSS feed for this blog. The file has always been available, but there was never anything really pointing to it.

Tiger Beetles

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:00:34 -0400

I spent some time today in a coffee shop on the East side of Manhattan sketching a few tiger beetles over some iced coffee and an almond croissant (my go-to café pastry) and these are the results. I still need to work on getting my proportions and shading right, but I’m trying to get used to doing things imperfectly, so here it is!

Friendship and Connection

Sat, 31 May 2025 23:56:46 -0400

Spending time with my friends is always such a transformative experience for me. It always leaves with this deep appreciation for the people in my life, but beyond that, it reinforces my belief in love and the goodness of people.

An Ending; A Beginning

Fri, 16 May 2025 19:52:43 -0400

Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash )

Today I quit my job.

For the first time in my adult life, I’m both unemployed and not a student. It feels like a massive weight has been lifted off of my chest but also that another is hanging over me, waiting to fall onto me. The strange part is that weight, the one I know is coming doesn’t feel as heavy. I feel as though I’ll be prepared to carry it because it’s a weight I truly would have chosen myself.

Sketch 2025-05-02

Fri, 02 May 2025 02:45:37 -0400

Pen sketch of a bird from reference

Reference image

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