I love to take mushrooms in the spring time.

Every time I go no contact I go alil crazy.

I released a book! I wrote this iwth the help of the Independent Publisher’s Resource Center located in Portland, Oregon. I was lucky enough to be in there Comics Cohort program and got to learn so much alongside amazing creators.

My book is about 25 pages long and follows my life story through 2 major relationships. The book uses ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves” as a template, particularly the story of Bluebeard as a backdrop to explain the archetypes and themes of the “wild Woman” and Bluebeard as a initiation process.

Using this story, I go into two abusive relationships, discussing falling in love, and when the comfort began to fall apart and became unsafe. It was a hard book to write. I didn’t eat or sleep while inking, but it the end I am happy and releived that I have told my story. I look forward to hoping to never have to tell this story again!!

Here is a comic I made in October about my birthday. I was in Minneapolis and post Big Breakup, and took Adderall and didn’t sleep much. There was a lot of uncertainty in my life, which I was struggling to cope with. So, here’s a funny-ish comic about loosing it a little bit!

This is a comic all about the gestalt principal, “The Fertile Void.”

Some cool photos from my new Samsung FF-50 camera. This is my new favorite camera, I bought it online for $40. It’s an auto flash camera, so it works really well in ark spaces, which is where I’m most active so I was able to fill this camera up fast. It’s a really good camera to shoot happy night time with friends as you can wee below. It’s also much better to shoot things far away as it doesn’t focus well when the scenes or the objects are up close. However, this camera is undoubtedly my new favorite camera and will become a staple in my life going forward. Please enjoy these little shots from the past 30 days or so of weird COVID pseudo nightlife photos.

First photos are all using a Ultronic Panoramic Point and Shoot 35 mm film camera. Most of the photos turned out really well. This camera is really interesting (and popular online) as it has this automatic panoramic effect. It’s actually not a panoramic camera, it just adds two black columns on the ends so it looks more ~~~ cinematic ~~~. Here are some of the best photos! Or actually all the photos haha because I think they all turned out pretty good. Also please excuse the slight lopsided aspect of the photos. I used my own scanner and the panoramic effect does amplify if the photos are not scanned completely straight.

Some photos taken on an old kodak disposable camera from September and then some final shots taken from February. Only 10 of the 27 shots actually showed. I think it was too dark and I am beyond hopeless with a disposable camera. But the ones that did are very lovely!

River eating fries on my porch in the beginning of Feburary. A very cold day, but it was very refreshing to see friends after so long in isolation. Code red in Manitoba was intensely anti-social.

Dil sitting on my porch the same day, enjoying poutine. What a Canadian moment. My laptop is even telling me that poutine is spelled wrong, this American computer can’t comprehend the French Canadian vernacular. This chrome book’s hardware is one of the last relics I seem to have left of an American mind haha.

Photo I took of my street that day. Pretty colorful little street I live on. Arlington Street is a wonderful haven to be stuck on in quarantine. I really love living here. I feel I got very easily drawn into the Wolseley neighborhood in Winnipeg, very friendly and colorful neighborhood. This photo is so warm and romantic to me. Who wouldn’t wanna live in front of such nice and colorful homes?

Dil sitting in a forest very close to the Forks. We were having some drinks while hidden away after seeing the Justice4BlackLives rap show. Ths would of been beginning of September, I think. I had matched with one of the rappers on tinder and I thought about talking to him after the show, but I didn’t. Oh well. The night as a lot of fun as always.

River and Charlie sitting in the forest, probably across from Dil. They both look so caught off guard. The flash must of been abrasive, I can’t really remember. I remember sitting in the grass while Dil rolled cigarettes and laughing a lot.

Very sweet picture of my three really cute friends on a path by a bison sculpture before the show.

Charlie smoking on my roof in a really good Amy Winehouse look for my birthday party in mid September. This must have been taken around 3 am?? Very fun night. I had to cut the other person out of the photo for reasons not worth getting into. But, look at how nice Charlie looks!!!

Most of the photos from the party came out looking something like this. Just really blurry and dark. I learned I definitely need to use flash if I am going to be taking photos inside of my house. This one I thought was especially spooky — if you look very closely you can see on my tv is the lyrics for Billy Joel’s “Vienna”… “Ooh, when will you realize Vienna waits for you..” We did a lot of karaoke that night and this is the only living proof of it. I guess it’s best that way, sometimes it’s best karaoke isn’t recorded with physical evidence.

Me and Charlie on my roof. Very late in the night(or early in the morning?). Very good times. One of the best birthdays I have ever had without a doubt. Friends ended up eating bean dip and drinking to much on my roof until 8am. I would say it was less partying and more consoling at that point in the morning though. Very nice to console and be consoled by folks you love! A friend drew a really excellent comix about watching the sunset and talking about our families that night/morning. Happy to experience great moments with great people, and also have such fantastically creative buddies who can go home and make really awesome art about the experiences.

Ending here, with Dil! Dil got a lot of shots in this roll of film! Just the luck of the draw I suppose since over half the photos didn’t turn out. Or it’s the universe trying to tell me something. It does always feel a little ghostly what shots turn out and which don’t. Well anyway, whether it’s coincidence or divine intervention, here is Dil on the roof looking extremely picturesque and glamorous. Even with with a big drain pipe behind them. Still taken on the infamous roof on my birthday. Excellent memory. Much love to them and a good place to end the showcasing of this camera roll.

Little Fish by Casey Plett

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


By far one of the best books I’ve read in a while. I live on Arlington and Portage, lived on Wolseley and Sherbrook, lived on Ellice and Maryland. This book takes place in my neighborhoods, in my bars, in my shops. Everything about this book is Winnipeg wintertime. The alcoholism, the sadness, the dread, the doom, the friends, oh my gosh the friends. This book was a wonderful, multi-leveled, and complex love story to the beauty and ugliness of Winnipeg, and to Wendy’s experience. It wasn’t melodramatic or overstated, everything went by fast and dreamily. Life was ugly, life was sad, but also she laughed and dreamed. I truly loved it and Wendy is someone I feel like I know, or at least should know.

I don’t think I could get closer to be inside a trans-woman than through this book. I am so happy it was written and my understanding of the experiences of trans woman has been greatly expanded. I will be recommending this book to everyone. Plett articulated sadness and the quickness of life so perfectly. I felt so heard. It’s a very sad book and I cried a few times, but it’s also not a sad bok? It’s just a book about a life, and a month in one person’s life. It feels like a happy ending, it feels nice. It’s one of the stories that is undeniably sad and heartbreaking, but also not because it’s truth and it’s resilient (even though I hate that word… it’s true). It’s a story of existence. Winnipeg exsistence. I’m really happy I read it.



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