box-o-bows

Last fall, when I was attending summer camp, I had a delightful conversation with two of the employees of the leather vendor at the event. Mostly, it involved the topic of reinventing fetish and my emerging dandyism, as it were. As it turns out, one of the two is a big-time thrifter and peruser of […]

omgs!omgs!omgs!omgs!

Wow-o-wow-o-wow! How many of you remember my posing for Dr. Sketchy’s back in January…? It looked a little bit like this: Anyway… what I never got around to posting is that the Pi Gallery (in close proximity to my Apryl’s Slap-n-Tickle) had a show featuring images from and inspired by Dr. Sketchy’s KCMO back in […]

Protected: a wickedly good weekend

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Protected: my thanks goes out

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Yay! I Feel Better Already!

One day down at HARCmart. The director only wants individuals to volunteer two days a week, which is fine, there are a lot of folks revolving around the schedule. Some bonuses too. HARCmart loves its volunteers. It needs to… They feed you lunch and snacks through the day. And you get to select six items […]

The First Day of School

No really, it just seems like that… Today, I start volunteer work at HARCmart. As long as I am unemployed, I will do what I can to work all their hours – 10-3 Tuesday through Thursday. They are the only unconditional assistance I have had over the past few years and I am truly grateful […]

How Things Change, Part 2

So… The reality of my financial situation and the crash of weekend plans hit my head full-on. And I now sit here overwhelmed and tears in my eyes, but not for the obvious reasons. I just got off the phone with my bikers. I had called to let them know I would have to cancel […]

The Best Patron EVER!

For years now, longer than I have been in KCMO, I have had this incredibly generous and devote customer off somewhere on the East Coast. His generosity has helped me continue as a fledgling erotic artist at times when I that it impossible and improbable. I have mentioned him before in these posts. I will […]

Missing Things That Don’t Know They Are Missing

Today was my HARC-mart day. The local HIV food pantry here in glorious KCMO. Their assistance is sometimes meager, but always appreciated and most certainly welcomed. Today’s list included a gallon of chocolate milk. I cannot recall the last time I shopped for chocolate. My first reaction was a bit of a knee-jerk one, since […]

Lesson in Thanks and Humility – Part 1

I just returned from my first trip to Harc-Mart, KCMO’s HIV/AIDS food pantry. I had spoken to my new case manager about the service last month. It would seem it is one of KCMO’s last wavering assistance programs without ridiculously low income cut-offs. The volunteers were very friendly and helpful. Since it was my first […]