Celebrating 10 Years of (Professionally) Writing Online

Ten Years of Weed Writing🍃

As we approach anotha Donna Summa, I reflect on reaching my 10 year write-aversary. I ‘wrote’ online for many years before, but received my first $50 dollars for the honor in summer 2013, when I instructed readers how to turn their curling irons into a curling wand with a 60-second hack, rather than spend $$$ on a brand new one.

She’s an innovator, a big thinker 🫡

And while I kid and joke, THAT was the beauty advice I needed at 26, and I was sooooOOOOOooo blessed to hear that I wasn’t alone— many readers came with me on the journey of covering my weird high-low-femme-masc-professional-DIY, sometimes contradictory, and always eye-opening work. I wrote my SECOND-ever professional piece about making WEED CHAPSTICK, in 20-fricking-13, and while the editor was obsessed, the legal department said “{hell no}”.

Because my work is not ad friendly, because I look under stones that people would rather leave undisturbed, my work has only been profitable for others, and never for me.

This space is divorced from that concept of profitability, and is simply here to be here.

LATEST WORK: 😎💨

Anyone who’s been to Italy and tried Aperitivo, the snacks-after-work tradition, comes home bummed that we don’t have the same system in America. Sure, happy hours often have discounted drinks and food, but they’re not APERITIVO, where you get free food just for drinking 😜. Read more about how to do it at home in times of ~*inflation*~!

INFLUENCED: Buying Insights 📲

Somebody CBD Headache Roller😵‍💫

I am an achy, achy person. Between the stuff I have a diagnosis for and the regular symptoms I don’t have one for, my body is a pain in the ass, I like to say.

Headaches are a regular issue, and I already often throw menthol, minty, or otherwise cooling products at the problem when NSAIDs aren’t working. My greasy creams are not terribly portable, though, and as headaches like to strike anywhere and at any time, I was stoked to find something that ticked more boxes than ‘vaguely minty’.

Somebody’s CBD headache roller is potent smelling essential oils in a light meadowfoam seed oil base. Pepper, menthol, chamomile and more help to reset your aching skull, or at least, they help me relax so the contents of said skull can sort it out on their own. It’s a small bottle, but lasts forever even when schmearing generously.

7/10 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃

Cannascape Storage Systems

While I reuse cannabis packaging wherever possible, it doesn’t store things well when it’s already been opened.

Unless you keep that plastic/foam sealing bit on top, a glass jar is not gonna keep your flower fresh very long, and even with it, air can get in and age your weed, making the terps less terpy—and the quality of the smoke ultimately goes down. The double seal and optional argon gas valve make the Cannascape system a good choice for stashing the stuff you bought on sale, or your homegrown bounty, while preserving the intensity of the aromas we all love so much.

These jars also make excellent coffee and tea storage units, too, if you’re less weedy 😬.

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Links to Love 💕 or Hate 🫀

As mentioned, I’m one month away from my 10 year freelanciversary. This means more than half of my adult years have been spent chasing invoices, cold pitching editors who store the idea but never commission you, and other indignities. The same publications that ignore me hire my white male straight colleagues with gusto. That’s not a projection— I have the data, LOL.

Do something nice for the women freelancers you know, love, or hire, like paying fairly, on time, and with minimal BS. 😈

10 years as a writer and 10 years as a pedestrian— I’m just one of those freaks. While I keep a license and (occasionally, but rarely) drive, I love the ease and low responsibility of a chill public transportation or walking-only day. Every time I use a car, I’m reminded of their precarious but protected nature, and inclement weather notwithstanding, prefer the sun on my face without glass in between

You don’t have to be a pedestrian or anti-car to see how our lives could be better by reducing their use, but we cling to this form of transportation individualism like we cling to Amazon purchases.

Read this for some perspective!👽

If women started talking to people like any of the men listed do regularly, they’d never make it off the entry level platform. The glass ceiling is everywhere when irresponsibility is skewed as confidence—a leadership worthy quality— but care and empathy are left to lower ranks, a quite puzzling conflation.

Time and time again, our culture rewards men for the same behaviors they punish in women, especially at work. ☄️

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