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  • OCD, joy, & hobbies.

    I recently saw the question posted: What has OCD taken away from you? I don’t like to think about things that way. There are things in my life different from how I expected or wanted them to be because of the way OCD makes me behave, of course, but no matter what kind of life Read more

  • l’iniza della stagione Aries (the beginning of Aries season) & the OCD in my brain

    The beginning of Aries season was supposed to be about planting seeds. For me, that was going to mean both literal seeds and the seeds of things I want in my life, like routine and healthy eating. However, my OCD and the universe at large had ideas that differed from my own. My second kitty Read more

  • OCD & personal joy

    TDUBBS (trigger warnings): obsessive thoughts, self-harm, OCD It started as fear of making mistakes: educational, professional, personal, medical… It escalated into a near-debilitating inability to get rid of images of harm coming to those I love or myself. Now, I write this not fully out of the woods. I was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder before Read more

  • calathea makoyana

    calathea makoyana

    I thought I’d lied to you recently! I called one of my latest plant additions a calathea, thinking it wasn’t a prayer plant because it wasn’t doing very much praying (as I wrote about here, prayer plants get their common name from the way they fold up almost into the shape of praying hands at Read more

  • la vita inizia con i pianti (life begins with plants)

    la vita inizia con i pianti (life begins with plants)

    Well, okay, life begins with single-celled organisms. But in the sense that our current existence is fully hinged on plants, la vita inizia con i pianti! Whether you’re vegetarian or carnivore, vegan or pescatarian, you are nourished by plants – you’re either eating them, or what you eat is eating them. Or both. Plants are Read more

  • why i’m waiting to go back for my PhD

    why i’m waiting to go back for my PhD

    And, why do you care that I’m waiting to back for my PhD? You probably don’t, not really. But I’m writing this not just to remind myself why I made this decision but also to show anyone else making a decision like this some comraderie. Two first thoughts: (1) Buy the f**cking cinnamon honey latte. Read more