Unruly Mom

(Every full moon (ish) I pull out my old journals and peek at what I was doing around this time at various points of my life. It’s fun and entertaining, and makes me glad I have kept journals and been a total fucking packrat about it my entire life. I hope you enjoy these snippets of my life. I’ve kept the dates, but excluded the years to add to the mystery! Random photos from the same time…

Spent all weekend writing, doing art, and slowly composing this playlist of songs that had me creatively productive all weekend long. Enjoy! Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/104-a-good-day/pl.u-2KV6fLLzbyd YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOJsrwRpNM54Yl8QqUoLTZlHH7lkK02P&si=8eKmhcnM-a-qgiI4 Musical Interlude: Big Star – Thirteen…

“All Of Our Heroes Are Bastards” collage art with leftovers from the zine Lately, I’ve been listening to music a lot more and with more intention. I have grown frustrated with the stupid algorithm and I’ve started making my own damn playlists again…sometimes on the fly, often with prompting from someone who casually mentions something I might enjoy listening to. Occasionally, I will dip my toe…

First porch sit of the year! “Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot,” -Jack Kerouac The waning light and spent goldenrod I waited until too late in the day to have my first porch-sit of the year, but I didn’t let that stop me. Jones was like “Where…

(cross-posted from my Patreon page) First – I owe y’all an apology. I’m MONTHS late on the zine grab bags. It’s almost cliche by this point for me to say I was hoping to finish that damn Chicago zine that has been sticking in my craw for like, oh…12 years or so? Maybe even more? That I PROMISED MYSELF I would get done in time for this mailing and. just. did. not…though I DID make progress on it.…

Happy New Year! Here is a free Patreon post that includes a link to my annual birthday mix, as well as general updates: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rises-moon-147098434?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Please consider subscribing to my Patreon. I post on an erratic schedule about the various goings-on here at Unruly Farm, as…

I’m watching spring slowly seep into the landscape. Winter was so hard, and the warmer weather, along with the life it brings, is more than welcome. I’m absorbing. Breaking icy shackles. And at the same time, suddenly so many of the loose ends of my life have managed to come fully apart and in so doing somehow managed to bring everything back together again. I feel like I say this every year…

What are y'all doing to prepare for winter?

Cold-weather bedding time The last couple of days have had grey moments that portend winter, and I have switched my focus to hardcore cozy prep. The house has, for the most part, been fully reorganized. Tidy, it is not, but there aren’t things spread all over the floor of the mudroom and dining room, waiting to be put up. Those items are either in a general area where they will remain, or up on…

Routines!

I’m currently on an extended mental health leave from work – trying to get my shit together so I can focus on my job when I return. The big thing I’m working on during this time is finishing moving in, reorganizing all of my spaces for maximum efficiency, and developing routines that will help me accomplish my goals so I don’t end up going back to work and being consumed by my job and then…