Lower Heaven Weekly
Read two new chapters of Lower Heaven each week or subscribe on Patreon for $3 to get all four books in the series so far. New chapters every Wednesday.
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We Need Each Other
I just keep thinking that we have to adapt. We still need each other. That never stopped, only becoming more true when the virus hit.
Renting Sucks in Watauga County, Part II
If you’re going to retaliate against someone for speaking generally about renting conditions in Boone, you’ve proved my point that you have more interest in maintaining your market dominance than listening to the community you serve.
How Houseplants Healed My Haunted Mind
I love seeing how popular gardening-especially indoor gardening--is becoming during the pandemic. You don’t realize how much plants can improve a depressing place until you’re forced to be in one for a while.
The Age of Enlightenment is Ending
There is no climate crisis without the Haber-Bosch process, no chemical weapons. There is no mass marketing without sociology and behavioral science. Facebook itself is a scientific triumph that ultimately degrades public discourse and trust in scientific authority.
Renting Sucks in Watauga County
WNC Renters Help is accepting submissions of landlord stories for a new community accountability database!
Mutual Aid, vending machines, zines, cataclysms and then some
It’s been a busy pandemic, that’s for sure. Now accepting zine submissions for publication.
Theory of Change
I’m not saying stop paying attention, or don’t vote. This isn’t a call to not participate in the current system. I am saying vote your conscience come November, but treat that vote as your least important political act of the year.
Mental Secession
When the equation becomes too complicated, you are free to remove yourself from it.