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Trigger warnings, thoughtful thumbnails and other kindnesses. (Discussion of intravenous drug use)
I flick through addiction blogs, sometimes there is someone I can give a word of encouragement to, sometimes someone writes something that happens to strike a chord with me. I flick past most of the adverts for various programs and assertations that all you need is various representatives from their religions. Sometimes there are ill […]
MoreVarious Incarnations of Jane
I had vague ideas about writing something cheerful today. A post on the magical corner of Franklin and Lombard perhaps, or something on my devotion to music and how it shaped and saved my life. I unzipped my gig bag and pulled out the guitar so I could pick softly while looking out into the […]
MoreHeaded East
We were headed up to Minnesota, travelling from the southern coast of Oregon. A total of 1961 miles. In reality it was going to be a little more than that, as we would invariably get lost looking for camping, or food, or gas. At this point we had no phone, no internet access, just a […]
MoreSawyer’s Bar and the Marble Mountain Wilderness Area.
We had only been on the road for a short period of time – a week perhaps, just the time it took us to meander up to the very northern part of California. It is so beautiful up there – shades of highlands, or alpine pretensions with trees so large and tall they make you […]
MoreOnion Rings and Angel Wings (Life on the Road)
We got lost somewhere around Los Gatos. The kind of lost you can get when you navigator has no idea how roads work in the USA, when you have no GPS, you are using the 2015 KOA brochure road maps as your only guide, and there is a shocking lack of pruning around signs in […]
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