Category: Real Life

  • Is This Thing On?

    I’m not receiving my own content, as a subscriber, to this blog. Something broke, somewhere, and I can’t figure out what. Are you still receiving this? Send me a line catastrophe.jones@gmail.com or post a comment below so I can see if anyone’s still out here with me in the vast wilds of whatever the fuck…

  • Spring Cleaning

    Too many cobwebs cluttering up BrainTown for the last year. A year ago, I was in isolation, riddled with COVID, miserable and sick for Mother’s Day and my birthday. Everything was bullshit. A year later, I can still feel the after effects of having contracted the plague; my lungs are close to, but not 100%.…

  • Recipe for When You’re Grieving

    Use a heavy-bottomed pan, a big one. Drop in some butter. Top and tail and peel sweet onions. Chop them slowly, and let yourself cry. Sweat the onions in the butter; add salt and pepper. Stir until everything is soft. Until you’re soft. Trim leeks then half them, lengthwise. Cut them into infinite halfmoon ribbons…

  • Let’s bring back connection

    I don’t know which of you beautiful goblins out there needed to read everything, literally everything I’ve ever posted in the ‘grief’ and ‘loss’ tags — but whatever you’re going through, I’m sorry. DM me somewhere, ok? Everything is terrible, but maybe you don’t have to be alone. Tags: connection, grief, hope, loss, real life

  • It’s My Birthday!

    It’s my birthday, and as a gift to myself, I’ve decided to stop having a great big anxiety freakout that I’m not as punctual as I’d like to be, when it comes to posting updates. I’m grateful to those of you who stick around and read, even when weeks go by without anything new. Life’s…