carrot's blog

So today I got up really early to join some fellow rewilders to harvest cottonwood buds to tincture and make into a salve for sore muscles. We met at the house of Norris and Theressa, some of the coolest people in Portland, as far as I'm concerned.  Read More »

So yesterday was a fun day of trying out a new skill; for the first time in my life, I was doing blood draws on my classmates. Or rather, I should say, attempting blood draws, because none of the four I attempted where quite successful. At first, I had a bit of trouble finding the vein; my needle would skim along the top of the vein, causing bruising but not any blood in the vaccutainer.  Read More »

So lately, when I've been in places like, say McDonald's to use the bathroom or something, or sometimes on a bus, I find myself suppressing an urge to yell "can't you all see the apocalpse all around us?!" Maybe this is crazy, but something has changed drastically lately in how I see the world, and I can't help but feel that this culture, this civilization, is not just falling apart, but rapidly  Read More »

So tonight, after about six months of being more or less homeless; living under a tarp in the woods in Minnesota and then in a tent, a bike-garage, in other people's houses and a hostel, I have finally decided to live in a house again.  Read More »

So despite all the writing I've done on the subject of having sexual or romantic relationships with multiple people at the same time; I'm just starting to traverse those waters, for the first time in my life, and I'm finding them choppy, and it is bringing up unexpected feelings and jealousy I wasn't aware was in this heart of mine.  Read More »

So I've just been reading about the rioting going on in many cities in California and around the country related to the unfortunate death of Oscar Grant and I have to say, two feelings are stirred in me when I hear about things like this. One feeling is that "oh shit!" panicky feeling I get in my gut whenever I hear about violence, period.  Read More »

So I always resolve, every time I fly, not to fly again; flying is just so unnatural, bad for the environment, bad for my health (apparently, one flight across country is like the equivalent of getting 100 cat-scans of radiation, because you are so far up in the atmosphere, or something like that.) But, then my family calls and really wants to see me and offers me a plane ticket home, and since I  Read More »

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