The one where I talk about myself

This is my huge face.

Blogging has always been a bit tough for me. I have started a million and they have all sat empty while domain charges slipped through my bank account unnoticed until I cancel my card or am forced to pay attention by some overdraft fee. I am not a writer, have minimal grammar knowledge and am not particularly fantastic at any given thing. Jack of all trades, master of none comes to mind.

I do however, enjoy a myriad of topics and occasionally dabble in some. Although I am very much interested in content creation, I severely lack the ability to stick to a single topic or genre that is necessary to be "successful" on almost any platform. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I have absolutely no idea what is going to live here. How's that for an introduction?

Garbage aside, here is some stuff to know about me...

I love art. Making it, looking at it, talking crap about it. People say the eyes are the window to the soul, bullsh*t. It's your art. Whatever that is. Painting, drawing, writing code, blogging about food, making clothes, larping. What someone contributes to the world through physical action says so much more about their soul than eyeballs. I mean, I'm going to get literal here, but some people don't even have eyeballs.

Some of my art.

(Everything is so huge...I've got to learn how to use this thing.)

I have also recently started making synthwave music so you will probably hear some of that in the future. I'm an 80's baby and love the throwback of the genre.

Books are wonders of the world. I have trouble getting to the end of them though. I have about a dozen half read novels sitting on my windowsill as I type this. Some of my favorites are...

The Catcher in the Rye
White Oleander
Moriarty
Anything by Edgar Allen Poe
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Huck Finn

I am currently also reading the graphic novel series Locke & Key by Joe Hill. I tried to read some of his novels, but they terrified me. I guess that means he's a good writer.

I'm also super into some television shows, movies and podcasts. Like, pretty into them. Almost stan levels if you speak millennial or whatever. Good stories and odd characters that dive into the reality of human behavior, as terrifying as it sometimes is, always captivates me. I enjoy things like Peaky Blinders, Mr. Robot, Bates Motel, Taboo, Animal Kingdom (the one on TNT), tons of true crime shows and documentaries as well as Bobs Burgers and musical theatre.

If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm sort of into dark, borderline macabre stuff. I'm not sure why. I think it has something to do with the realness of it that as a society we tend to either ignore or turn into some glorified freak-show. I suppose I'm interested in psychology, but I don't have the attention span to study it.

I've been obsessed with the Titanic ever since I was a kid. I remember walking across town to the library every weekend and sitting against the wall right next to the section of books about it and reading anything I could until they closed. I'm afraid of deep water but not of drowning in it and of gigantic things that protrude ominously out of the earth like mountains, or rocks in the ocean. But not because I read all those books. It's always been there.

I'm a single mom to the coolest little dude ever. He's high functioning autistic and ADD which is both a blessing and a curse most days. He's hilarious, loves practical jokes, video games, drawing and building things with Legos. I never get bored.

As I wrote the above, I kept going back to what I have to offer this community and I think what I truly have to give is just myself. Me. A person. Probably a lot like some of you and the polar opposite of others. I'm not here to make money (I don't even really know what cryptocurrency or the blockchain are) Rather, I'm here to connect with people, learn from them, share stories and talk about things that interest me.

If you got this far, thanks for reading.

-Riley