Chuck Hoff
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If you like my writing, please consider donating to my brother's medical fund to help him recover from a traumatic brain injury. TW for graphic medical imagery on the cover page.https://gofund.me/74d0de08
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There is Something Deeply Ok With Me
This might come off as corny and made up, but I swear this revelation came to me in a dream. I had taken 10 mg of THC before bed to help me sleep and I dreamed that I was in someone's living room hanging out with a group of people who were all being really nice to me and enjoyed my company. I didn't feel any pressure to entertain or impress them, they were just happy to have me around whether we were talking to each other or doing separate things. I knew it was a dream, but I felt so good about myself that I woke up and reached for my phone to type out what felt like the central message of the dream: "There is something deeply ok with me."
By Chuck Hoff4 years ago in Motivation
Taking Care of a Puppy Taught Me How to Take Care of Myself
The world’s pandemic puppies are going to start turning 2 years old soon. Of course, not everyone who adopted a dog in early-mid 2020 got a puppy. I certainly did though. A sweet little mutt with the bulging wet eyes and curly tail of a pug and the expressive ears and long snout of a rat terrier.
By Chuck Hoff4 years ago in Petlife
I Wanna Be Your Dog
The radio was playing NPR when I turned on the car to go to work. Liv must have been listening to it on her way home from the closing shift at the dildo store. She always came home with interesting work stories. Just two nights before a woman visiting from out of town had invited Liv to her hotel room to rub the other woman’s feet after work. She nearly said yes, but I reminded her she had an early doctor’s appointment the next day.
By Chuck Hoff4 years ago in Fiction
I Am Obsessed with Reading Dead People's Diaries
I've been interested in diaries as a literary genre for almost as long as I can remember. Fake ones (the Dear America series of children's books; Catherine, Called Birdy; Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey), real ones (Anne Frank, Samuel Pepys, Sylvia Plath, Anne Lister, Virginia Woolf), blogs, vlogs, and more! I want the juicy, mundane details of the everyday lives of strangers. Unpublished private diaries particularly appeal to me because of their lack of self-consciousness. These writers aren't trying to impress any audience at all, which sometimes makes for extremely boring minutia (which is interesting in its own way) and other times reveals unconventional and charming sincerity you won't find in an Instagram post. The diaries as physical objects are also fascinating. Each person's handwriting takes me a few pages to get used to before I can consistently read it. Some, I have never fully cracked. Most of them are pre-dated diaries for a particular year, so the writers only had a specific amount of space to write in for each day. I hesitate to even share this niche hobby for fear that new interest will make for more competitive bidding and the prices will go up. Maybe I need to make it a little harder to indulge my addiction though. Here's a rundown of some of the most interesting and most boring diaries I've read over the last 6 months.
By Chuck Hoff5 years ago in FYI
