carrot's blog

My temporary housemate Jordi came home the other night with a sad story the other night; a possum had been hit in the road not far from the house, but was not dead yet. She asked me to go help her finish the possum off. I went down the street with her without a knife or anything, just to assess the siduation because I thought the possum might just be playing dead.  Read More »

So when I was a little kid, I had this weird obsession that I'm scared to even share, for fear people will label me as this or that...when I was little, for a period of about two years, I had to go check everyday under this bridge by my house, because I believed I would find an abandoned baby under the bridge.  Read More »

The Morrigan, also known just as Morrigan, which means "terror" or "phantom queen," also spelled Morrign, Morrighan, or Mor-Rioghain, was an ancient Irish goddess, before the days of Christianity. Morrigan was associated with sovereignty, prophecy, war, and death on the battlefield. She sometimes appeared in the form of a raven, and would fly about, crying and looking for war.  Read More »

So along the lines of a couple of other recent posts about women, witches and magic, (which are, really, all descriptive words of the same thing as far as I'm concerned...all women are witches, all women are magic embodied, it is only that some women are more empowered in that sense then others..) I've decided to write about Morrigan, whose strength I need in order to work well at this new job, wh  Read More »

I don't often label the world in black and white terms; but I'll make an exception for a corporation I've been reading about, namely the big, bad, ugly Nestle. I remember as a kid saving wrappers from a variety of Nestle products to send in to get soundtracks to all of my favorite Disney movies, because Nestle and Disney apparently have some type of connection.  Read More »

I've been realizing that I don't normally write very uplifting messages; most of my blogs are pretty doom and gloom, and since this past week has been a week straight from hell (1 a lover and I came to the understanding that we can't be lovers anymore 2) I got kicked out of my new house, about two weeks after moving in 3) I got caught shoplifting 4) I went back to being a wage-slave 5) I had a min  Read More »

So this week I've been training to work at yet another Salvation Army run shelter; this one is for pregnant teens who have either committed some type of crime or have been addicted to drugs or alcohol.  Read More »

I always love bleeding and I always have this strong urge to tell everyone I meet when I am bleeding...something about menstruation feels really powerful and vital and magical and lovely.  Read More »