What motivates you?

At the moment? Spite.

What are your top ten favorite movies?

10. Howl’s Moving Castle

9. Gone in 60 Seconds

8. The Fifth Element

7. Labyrinth

6. Die Hard

5. Sense and Sensibility (1995)

4. The Nightmare Before Christmas

3. Twister

2. The Women (1939)

1. Practical Magic

What do you love about where you live?

I like a few things about where I currently live.

It’s two hours or so from my hometown of Chicago. And is about three hours from my Papas’ house in West Chicago, or five hours the other direction to my bestie.

What I love, though, is the flowers that grow in the backyard, the tiger lilies and the teacup sized flowers that I don’t know the name of that grow along the fence running from the house to the derelict garage.

Living with my partner has many lovely moments. When we cook together and he laughs at my little happy dances I do when I get the seasoning right.

The family of bunnies that live in a little warren near the air conditioner in the backyard are adorable. Oh! And I love the massive, golden orb weaver spider that lives in the corner window of the back porch.

I love the cooling weather as we get closer to Mabon/the autumnal equinox.

So, yeah.

What positive emotion do you feel most often?

I’m not sure, honestly. Is creativity an emotion? If I had to pick from the “basic” emotions, probably amusement.

How do you plan your goals?

Since I’m terrible at setting and achieving goals, this is something I’m actively working on with my new therapist.

Create an emergency preparedness plan.

Nah. I’m not giving away my doomy prepped secrets. Nor others’ prep habits.

But I will tell you being prepared to be without electricity when you’re on SSRIs or other heat-intensifying meds is a pain in the ass. It’s the only true negative to being on a mental health medication regimen.

What is a word you feel that too many people use?

The word I think that is overused by far too many people is “fine”.

We’re not fucking fine. The world is on fire, a fucking villain is running for presidency, COVID is still a thing, and Nazis are on the rise again.

It’s awful.

So. No. We aren’t fine and we should stop saying we are.

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

If I had no limit to my budget and could sustain it for multiple years without dying of poverty, I’d open a bookstore/cafe with a very witchy lean.

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

As I’m myopic as fuck, the most important thing to carry with me at all times is a pair of glasses.

Describe your life in an alternate universe.

Ya know, I don’t think I will. I don’t feel like trauma dumping all the shitty things that have happened to me over the years.

So. No. I’ll leave the alternate universes to fanfic.

What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?

I dropped $180 on my partner and I to go to this amazing place called Seoul Garden. It’s a Korean bbq place in town. We’ve only been there once, but now there’s another, much cheaper, Korean bbq in town.

But yes. It was worth every dime.

Describe one habit that brings you joy.

One habit that brings me joy is that I crochet when I am stretched thin to help me ground and center in a creative manner.

What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?

My parents were/are complicated people. I didn’t keep the bear young very young traditional, the multiple children by multiple partners, or succumb to drug addiction beyond repair traditions.

I do still drink a glass bottle of Coca Cola every Christmas, in honor of my late Daddy. That is one tradition I plan to keep.