military

  • Disciplining my Anxiety?

    Now I have to have the discipline to structure and occupy the time I have to myself. By myself. I’ve struggled with this in the past – it’s why I thrived in a military environment and why I work almost every night – I like to have a structure. I respond well to that. It’s

    Read more →

  • A Tiny Minority

    A Tiny Minority

    I have felt absolutely sick to my stomach. I can’t eat, could hardly sleep. I can’t get my mind off the VA and my job and my healthcare and the fact a far right, obsessively anti-LGBT oligarchy is taking over. I haven’t heard back from my provider yet, so I’m calling back today after work.

    Read more →

  • Trolling Elon

    Trolling Elon

    Everyone is saving their original email and emailing it back each Monday at President Musk’s demand. This is in reference to “list 5 accomplishments from last week” and the follow up email – do it again and every week, forever. So this week I ran a few prompts through chatGPT and had a bit of

    Read more →

  • Military Life

    My time in the military was simultaneously awesome and grueling. I excelled in basic training, earning squad leader for a time and exceeding standards on marksmanship, hand to hand combat, and attention to detail. This continued in AIT (advanced individual training) where I learned my job – signal corps. I was manning radios and using

    Read more →

  • A Little Family History

    A Little Family History

    I was born August 19, 1985, in Spokane, Washington. My three brothers and I grew up poor, and my family was and is dysfunctional. There is a great deal of mental illness and substance abuse in my family. My father was an alcoholic and died in 2006 after getting drunk and wrecking the BMW he

    Read more →

  • I Scare Myself

    I am a 70% service connected veteran. I served after high school, during the OIF/OEF campaigns. I earned a grenade launch pin as well as service medals and one promotion. I was raped and reported it but my report went nowhere. In those days, rape was rampant in the army. My father died on my

    Read more →