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Rural Route 2, Oklahoma in the 80’s and lots and lots of spiders.

Trigger Warning: there is an abundance of spiders, ticks and scorpions in this story. An animal dies and generally this is a pretty damn dark story, and nobody should read it.

I see spiders. Spiders find me. I have nutty interactions with spiders almost every week. They will slide down a web in front of my face. Come over and sit beside the mouse while I work at the computer. They’ll come and do dishes with me. Spiders are my spirit animal and it’s horrific. Why not owls? Or birds? Maybe a sharp billed Raven. I would take a possum or even a grasshopper. Why Spiders oh’ Universe?

Fat, Sick & Dying – An American Story.

In the United States we don’t have an Obesity problem. We have a food additive problem. The B-Vitamins are required for fat deposition and are included in otherwise low-nutrient food sources. Food producers are allowed to put in more vitamin mix then required so that labels can say, “200% of your daily required…” The low-nutrient food sources are also fortified with iron which causes a whole Pandora’s box of health issues such as in white Caucasians, who are prone to hemochromotosis a genetic predisposition to store extra iron. Vitamin C causes an uptick in Iron acquisition and is also commonly added to food and supplemented meaning most people get several times their iron requirements daily. And finally, worth of an entire book by itself: inorganic phosphates that can literally turn your elastic happy heart arteries to stone.

Lucky Cat Found Item

The Recollected Pieces of August

Amy begins a job as a personal organizer with a Korean born programmer from Seattle named August. Pays great. But there are lost items literally everywhere. Will Amy help sort August — or will August influence Amy into a never ending loop of losing identity along the way. Are all the pieces just doomed to stay lost?

A suburb in Oregon

The Perfect Burb

sub·urb ˈsəbərb/ noun an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one. Fact – the scariest of all suburbs have all the streets named for trees.   The suburb which I now occupied had only tree named streets.  And there were only two housing plans used. The one story suburban ranch style and the two … Continue reading The Perfect Burb