I just saw the cardiologist and finally have a diagnosis—labile hypertension caused by trauma and metabolic issues. Also she told me that Black people have thicker heart muscles. She barely made it out of my appointment alive. I laid into her. “You know they say Black people have bigger muscles as an excuse for slavery. You are quoting me 100 year old race science. So stop talking about it.

I’m doing a deep dive into how folks use story as a way to escape from trauma. How getting lost in speculative fiction is a kind of dissociative resilience. Escaping into story. Has anyone written about that? Psychology of story? Because I work across so many domains of knowledge I sometimes come across weird gaps. Like now I’m focusing on story and story structure. Some of what is out there seems to be screenwriters writing in conversation only with themselves 1/?

My pinned tweet is insensitive

I have discovered the Apple Cider Donut and I will never be the same I wasn’t expecting the food to be so off the hook good in Boston. I grew up in NYC (which objectively has the best food in the world 😉) and my main association with Boston was watching crazy white women setting school buses on fire when I was a school child myself.

I’m documenting my journey on the train, with a thread that I’m calling LOL @Amtrak. I shared a little about this epic journey while on the train on those rare occasions when there was cell service, as Amtrak has no WiFi. I left Seattle on the Coast Starlight early Tuesday morning. At midnight we finally arrived at Klamath Falls north of the stunning Mount Shasta, and were stuck there for 9 hours, because a wild fire damaged the tracks in front of us. Or maybe it was a flood.