About Me

I am a crazy cat lady though I only have two cats. And I’m not really a lady. The beard usually gives it away. Also, I live with a very handsome dog with amazing eyebrows.

I’ve rejected what is considered “normal” life in the US. I never had an interest in the "American Dream". These days I live a quiet life in a tiny 192sqft house in the woods. I’m surrounded by wildlife (song birds, geese, deer, squirrels, raccoons, the occasional duck… ) and find great joy watching their antics.

I’ve never had a corporate job and would never want one. I much prefer my work (web and graphic design) to be with non-profits or small businesses. This kind of work (for pay) isn’t the focus of my life. It’s what I do to buy food and the things I need to live. I’ve only had one full time job in my life. But I’ve worked my whole life, it’s just that much of the “work” I do I’ve done as a volunteer. Money is a necessary evil in our current society and I’ll never have it at the center of my life. When I was in my 20s I decided I wouldn't have kids. The future we find ourselves in now was not one I wanted to bring children into. I'm glad I made that decision 30 years ago.

The path I chose then was to live a life on the edge. Today that's a tiny house in the woods. Twenty five years ago it was a housing co-op of activists working to change Memphis, TN. Very different in some ways but alike in that I lived then, and now, in a sort of permanent state of protest of the nation I was born into.

I never accepted America. Or, rather, I learned that what I'd been taught about the nation was largely a lie and so I built a life of non-participation with capitalism and the corporate controled and purchased political process. I never possessed a desire to be successful in this system. My drive was to end it. Capitalism is a violent, cruel system based on brutality and grift. So I do my best to not feed it and, when possible, I put my energy into building community based alternatives and in organizing with people committed to bottom-up social justice.

I first considered myself an anarchist sometime around 1991. 35 years later and I still consider myself an anarchist. Which means I'm a socialist and, in the America of 2026, I oppose fascism which is now the system we find ourselves living in. If you're not fighting fascism you are, in fact, a fascist. Don't be a fascist.