Archive - Incurably Human

Today is My 4-Year Covidiversary

Today marks four years since my first symptoms of Covid-19. I am, as you probably know, still living with long Covid. Many of you are living with…

Mar 7 •

February 2024

Caring for Yourself While Caring about the World

Yesterday, I attended a protest at my state capitol. I stood side by side with strangers in the almost-freezing rain, my hand cramping from the effort…

Feb 17 •

January 2024

I used to feel a shapeless longing—an aching emptiness that filled with sound whenever I picked up a guitar or a blank notebook or a set of colored…

Jan 9 •

December 2023

Happy Holidays - have some poems!

I should—according to someone somewhere—be wrapping presents or baking that lemon tart I promised my oldest son. I should be doing something festive…

Dec 24, 2023 •

The Small Things

Some days, I write the words that spill out of me or swirl around me. Or the words that dangle right in front of me, as clear and bright as raindrops…

Dec 6, 2023 •

October 2023

A Pause Amidst the Turning

If you aren’t in the small pool of subscribers reading my novel, All Is Well, then it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me. I’ve missed connecting…

Oct 30, 2023 •

September 2023

Beneath the Same Sun

On my desk, sits a key lime La Croix, ice cold and shining with condensation. Outside my window, beneath the breezy sway of maple leaves, the grass…

Sep 21, 2023 •

August 2023

Poems for Your Day

I’m not big on New Years resolutions, but on January 1, I dubbed 2023 “The Year of Shitty Poetry” and decided to write a poem every day. I haven’t…

Aug 31, 2023 •

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Aug 15, 2023 •

July 2023

My Lizard is Convinced Something is Lacking

But That Doesn't Make It True

Jul 25, 2023 •

June 2023

Pick Up the Gifts

In the end of May, I returned to the Oregon Coast to continue my research on Bayocean—a once-glamorous resort town that was swallowed by the Pacific. If…

Jun 24, 2023 •

May 2023

At Peace With Not Being at Peace

Today, all the little things went wrong, stacking one atop another so that the day they built bears little resemblance to the one I envisioned. I’m mad…

May 18, 2023 •

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