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"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O'Connor


Blackstar: David Bowie, Existential Dread, and Dark Humor
Existential dread, David Bowie’s "Blackstar," cancer, and dark humor collide as I try to make sense of a world that feels increasingly unstable.

Lavavoth
5 days ago4 min read


Quick Break from Writing & Research
Proofreading, rewriting, getting lost in sentences, and resetting with music.

Lavavoth
Apr 202 min read


Taking Flight (Part 2): “It’s Now or Never”
A gliding flight in Vermont becomes more when a series of small, insistent moments only later reveals their connection to a shocking event. Moving between lived experience and theory, the post traces how synchronicity and precognition unfold through time and creative response.

Lavavoth
Apr 1613 min read


"Keep Going": Practice without Resolution
Over ten days, I kept returning to the same images while working through depression and conflict with Hans. Through Eros and Psyche, the work shifted into distance, misalignment, and the inability to reconcile who he had been with who he is now. Still, I stayed with it.

Lavavoth
Apr 57 min read


The Forbidden Glimpse: Eros and Psyche, Drawing Hans, and the Cost of Making Him Visible
During a ten-day drawing practice shaped by the myth of Eros and Psyche, I tried to draw Hans’s face for the first time in years. Each attempt forced a confrontation between devotion and verification. Making him visible risked shifting him from my unseen companion to the historical man he once was, revealing how the act of seeing can alter the bond itself.

Lavavoth
Feb 196 min read


Returning to Blind Love: Creation, Collapse, and the Call to Begin Again
After years of silence, I return to Blind Love—a novel born of visions, memory, and warning—guided again by Hans as the world turns darker still.

Lavavoth
Apr 23, 20259 min read


Into the Woods: A Three-Act Journey of Transformation and Spirit Connection
A journey through love, transformation, and spirit connection with Hans, my guide, told in 3 acts of shedding, searching, and surrendering.

Lavavoth
Sep 25, 20243 min read


Head Full of Stars (Unrequited Love Poem, Part 2)
Me, dressed in the finest intentions, glancing over, once, and then–the sky opened up. You were heavenly, frightfully sublime...

Lavavoth
Aug 29, 20172 min read


Hurricane Andrew (a recurring dream and the poem it inspired)
When reality suffuses
our castle in the air,
the yearning resumes its poisoned trail,
weighing the heart.
fogging the mind.

Lavavoth
Jul 13, 20171 min read


Neurodivergence: Battling Dyslexia
Typing is akin to using an Enigma machine, especially if I over analyze the keyboard...

Lavavoth
Jul 11, 20173 min read


Controlling the Uncontrollable: Potamophobia and the Writing Process
What was supposed to be a four-day weekend of editing my story, ended up being a basement flooding nightmare.

Lavavoth
Jul 7, 20175 min read


Nazisploitation: Avoiding “The Night Porter” Trap (and Website Updates)
Although Blind Love is an edgy and provocative illustrated novel full of “Nazi heartthrobs,” it is actually about the resistance movement.

Lavavoth
Mar 27, 20173 min read
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