I'm writing this from Calgary on Treaty 7 Territory, where it's currently -22°C and the kind of December night that makes you grateful for indoor heating. This is my first post on my omg.lol weblog, and I'm doing what I always tell other writers to do, showing up before I'm ready. Making the thing instead of endlessly planning the thing.

I've been writing online for a decade. Ten years on Medium, countless poems on Tumblr, essays scattered across platforms that don't belong to me. And that's fine, those platforms serve their purpose. Medium gives me an audience. Tumblr gives me a poetry community. But they're not mine.

This space is different. Just HTML, Markdown, vanilla CSS and Javascrript. Simple technology that'll outlive everything else. The IndieWeb as home base. A place where my content lives that I actually control.

What You'll Find Here

I'm not entirely sure yet. That's part of the appeal.

I write about a lot of things. Indigenous identity and what it means to be Métis in Mohkínstsis. Queer experiences and the messy mingling of faith and sexuality. Poetry craft. Web development and why JAMstack is eating WordPress's lunch. Productivity systems and analog tools. AI ethics and the existential crisis of proving you're human online.

Essays, rough notes, poetry, half-formed thoughts. All of it.

If you're reading this, you probably found your way here from my main site, or Medium, or Tumblr, or some other corner of the internet where I've left digital breadcrumbs. Welcome. I'm glad you're here.

This is a space for people who believe the web can be better than what big tech has made it. For people who value authentic human connection over engagement metrics. For people who still read long-form content and believe poetry matters and think that maybe, just maybe, we can build something worthwhile in the ruins of the attention economy.

Stick around if that sounds appealing. Subscribe to the RSS feed if you're into that. Or just bookmark this page and check back when you remember.

I'll be here, writing.