Author Archives: riverjdougherty

I’m starting to write a book of poetry combined with drawings and watercolor so here’s a new poem. I’d love for feedback we climbed mountains togetherimaginary or not, we climbed mountainswith our tiny bodies getting lost in the woodsand staring at the peak, which seemed so faryelling about adventures, the animals we found thereadventures weContinue reading “Mountains”

I am awake, or rather I haven’t slept until past four for days. I am tired and stressed. There are thing happening. At work that I’m supposed to be in charge of and I’m very much have mixed moral feelings about it. I had to put someone on final warning yesterday, and that really sucked.Continue reading “Some 4 am ramblings”

I get ladybugs in my room, fairly often, they land on my walls or run around a bit on my ceiling. Unfortunately I think it’s a place they come to live out their last moments, maybe sneaking in through the crack between my window and the windowsill, I can never quite get that thing closedContinue reading “Words, Woes, and Women”

It’s been the week from hell for me, for so many reasons. I always say that I’m going to be honest on these posts, and I’m sorry for the percentage of sad shit that ends up on here. Maybe I’ll try for some advice to trudge through. There are things coming to a head inContinue reading “I’m making art, I’m walking, I’m living a bit”

It’s pretty different for me right now, with my external life pretty stable and predictable, my internal life is chaotic and strange. Much of my life the opposite has been true, or at least I had to fake my internal life being stable because it was the only way to get through my external life.Continue reading “Missed Stitch”

It’s been a minute since I last wrote for the public, at least a prose piece, and update piece if you will. You’ll notice that we are not on my previous wordpress account, it was time to move it to a more official location on the internet, as my previous website was a tough oneContinue reading “Feel Love for the Manageable”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”