Coming back from the other side of my Bipolar Wonderland through medication, creativity, and moxie.
How would you design the city of the future?
Well, since I spent three years in high school learning architecture and drafting and a decade obsessed with green architecture and tiny/hyper-efficient housing, it would be green. Green, eco-friendly, walkable, and littered with edible fruit trees and community gardens.
Where did your name come from?
I am named for Theodore Roosevelt.
What motivates you?
It greatly depends on what “it” is that requires motivation.
Work? My desire not to be homeless again motivates me to get out of bed for an 8-4:30, Monday thru Friday job. And to have money.
Having to exist in this capital is hellscape is motivation, I guess.
I don’t know if there’s a good answer to this without more parameters.
What are your top ten favorite movies?
This is an easy list to make!
1. The Princess Bride
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (yes, I know it’s problematic)
4. Twister
5. The Day After Tomorrow
6. The Fifth Element
7. The Women (the black and white one from 1939)
8. Howl’s Moving Castle
9. Nightmare Before Christmas
10. Home Alone
What do you enjoy most about writing?
What do I enjoy about writing? Expressing myself in hopes of either helping someone find commonalities or to evoke emotional responses.
What positive emotion do you feel most often?
What positive emotion I feel most often is amusement. I know it’s not anything absolutely stellar, but I find humor in the strangest of places.
How do you plan your goals?
I don’t. Not currently at least. I have a vague idea of what I’d like to accomplish, but I’ve yet to sit down and figure out what I want to call a goal and how to get there.
What brings you peace?
What brings me peace? Stillness.
The hesitation of the wind before a rainfall, or the silence of an undisturbed snowy morning. Most of my peace comes from nature. Or running water, in its many forms.
What about you?
What profession do you admire most and why?
I admire teachers the most. Without them, we’d be back in the Darker Ages, though life is pretty dark right now.
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
If I could open up a shop, I’d sell witchy supplies. Crystals and candles and tarot cards, I’d sell it all.
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
Kindness. Hope. Patience. And usually a deck of playing cards.
Please understand, I’m a bit of a bitch at times. But I actively try to choose kindness when dealing with people.
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
I’d like to make the conversation about the realities of dealing with mental health issues more open with my blog.
Describe your life in an alternate universe.
I guess it depends on the Universe we’re speaking of, honestly.
Maybe in another space, I live in a tiny cottage with a cat who chases sunbeams. There are plants growing everywhere because I don’t kill them with inattention or overwatering. My house smells of lemon cleaner, incense, and books. There’s clutter everywhere, but everything has its place. Maybe I knit more than crochet in this world.
Or maybe I live in a rambling old Queen Anne with a handful of friends? There’s laughter and the smell of fresh baked bread always in the air. Creaky stairs and a big bed in a small room I share with a partner or a bed hog of a pet corgi that needs a set of tiny stairs to get up on the bed with me.
Maybe I’m a mutant with the powers of telekinesis and precognition channeled through vision.
Or even further into non-reality, I live a life without constant pain. Without myopic eyes and a body slowly betraying me, I am a marathon runner and champion chili maker.
Who knows what we are in other worlds?
