Lady who lives in a van, exmormon, primitive skills and outdoor survival enthusiast, cautionary tale. Also, *not my real name. — Where are you from? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area but have since spent the bulk of my adult life outside the US. Now, in Covid times, I live everywhere, in a van. You can usually find me somewhere between Cabo San Lucas, Seattle, Kalispell and Yuma. …

You heard it here first. — Just to be clear: this isn’t a comprehensive solution for the mental health crisis at the root of mass shootings — boy, if I had the solution for that, I’d think a lot more highly of myself than I do now — but rather, this is a targeted approach to…

A missed miscarriage attended by two dogs at 10,000 feet. Trigger warning and all that. — I decided to do this miscarriage alone, in my RV, beside a lake at 10,000 feet. It seems to be the right setting, nestled in among towering pines, where the only sounds are the alpine winds and birdsong. Some people have honeymoons. Some have babymoons. I’m having myself a miscarriagemoon…

"Let me know if you have found it useful; if the feedback justifies it, I’ll continue the series with discussions of anxiety disorders, autism, ADHD, and other problems." Yes please! A huge pet peeve for me is when lay people diagnose others (often a loved one, yech!) without the proper training or education. I think this does a huge disservice to both people who don't have a disorder (it serves to delegitimize them) and those who DO have the disorder (delegitimizes, and in a way, dehumanizes).

The end of a vanlife gathering, a tantalizing liaison, a writing group, and a run-in with Covid (maybe?) in the Arizona desert. — I’m doing a weekly/monthly/whenever post about my solo female vanlife. For an explanation of NomaDominaDaSola, click here. To get up to speed with the previous installment of NomaDominaDaSola, click here. Week one: Manttention On the last evening of the vanlife gathering, I find myself sitting around a fire with a dozen or so…

A quiet New Year’s, a ghost town, and a gathering. Also, an attempt to create a new human. — For an explanation of NomaDominaDaSola, read here. Week 1: Chillin at my mama’s in the snow

Find Your Writing Group’s mission and submission guidelines. — Want to improve your writing? The purpose of this publication is to help the writers of Medium find like-minded writers with whom to share and critique their work. The typical format of a writing group is as follows: one writer submits a piece to the group (usually just one piece a week so it’s not…

What will 2022 bring? Obsidian, #vanlife blogging, and writing groups (you can join!) — Medium faith crisis If you’ve read my recent posts, you know I’m going through something of a Medium crisis of faith. I enjoy the bit of extra money I make through Medium, but it’s not enough for me to write here regularly (or even to put much effort into my posts, because my…

Itsyeddannuddamedda — Or, it’s yet another meta. Sorry. — Antecedent. Response. Reward. It was the early aughts, I was 18 years old, and I had one of the first jobs I ever really cared about: doing ABA therapy with autistic children For those who don’t know, ABA therapy looks something like this: A tutor, (usually a chipper 18-year-old who’s taken exactly one…