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We acknowledges that we live, play, and do business on the ancestral lands of the Puyallup Tribe and the Coastal Salish People.

We give thanks to those who have tended the land long before us. Visit my site at Sweetbeets.org and sign up for my newsletter

11/07/2026

¡Felices 70 años, Papá!🎉

We are so fortunate to call you Pa! Thanks for the fun ride and coffee date!

11/05/2026

What is this feeling I felt last night while working on my son's paint by number (that he lost interest in) on my parent's balcony in Bucerías, Mexico and listening to the birds and realizing that black, brown, and indigenous women won major elections all over our country?

I think it might be hope.

But also- f*ck you WA for voting yes on i-638.

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10/30/2026

And this is why I am a Fire Breathing C*nt. 🐲

10/29/2026

Instead of commentary, send a meal ✌️👻🧟‍♀️💀🎃

10/28/2026

Done with love and light. Fire and fight in this next chapter.

10/22/2026

Financial abuse is present in almost all DV and it makes it so much harder for the victim to leave. If he's doing this to you, tell someone and make a plan.

10/19/2026

Resilience isn't glamorous. It's rib shaking sobs at 2 AM and sometimes being shoved over the edge of your capacity and surviving on spoonfuls of peanut butter for months on end.

Cheers to the people who held me through each death and stuck around to get to know the woman who rose in her place.

10/17/2026

Friend, you are not crazy. You are being gaslit.

10/14/2026

I started my studio because I was over men commenting on my body and acting shocked I could lift more than them at the gym... also because my abusive ex-husband cheated on me and I decided to start a women's strength coaching business to empower my sisters instead of having a revenge affair.

They're going to call us wh*res and bi***es no matter what we do or wear so might as well be c***s with muscles and powerful fu***ng bodies.

10/08/2026

Burden of Proof

The burden of proof is heavy
Impossibly heavy
And he knows it.

The burden of proof is heavy
Suffocatingly heavy
And he knows it.

The burden of proof is heavy
Back breaking heavy
And he knows it.

The burden of proof is heavy
The kind of heavy
That forces the strongest
Amongst us
To crumble
And he knows it.

The burden is heavy
And they smuggly watch us
Try to bare it
As we begin to break
Under its weight

And when we do
They will call us
Crazy,
Slut,
Gold digger,
Mentally ill,
Liar,
Bitch,
W***e

The burden of proof is heavy
Neutron star dense
Carried on the shoulders
Of every survivor
And he knows it.

The burden of proof is heavy
And my child weeps
They wish he would just hit them
Because bruises heal
And assist in lightening
The burden
So that a judge
Might believe us.

The burden of proof is heavy
And somehow
Victim statements get condensed
To a tidy 6 page summary
That somehow left out the word
R**e.

The burden of proof is heavy
And I wasn’t taught what s*x should be like
So when he fu**ed me
After being with his mistress
His hand on my throat
My pregnant belly round
Body contorted
My jaw clenched
I didn’t know to call it assault

Well, actually, I did
But he told me I was wrong

And the burden of proof is heavy
And he knows it.

But after all,
I did say “fine”
Although not at first
When he told me to take
my pants off at 3 AM.

And after years
Of being starved
Into acquiescence
I did.

And now I know that was
Coercion

But the burden of proof
Is heavy
And he knows it.

And so we scream
Me too
And
I am Jane Doe
And
My Body My Choice

Desperate to be heard
To be believed
Thinking

“Maybe this time
It will be different”

But we know
And he knows

The burden of proof is heavy
And it is mine to bear.

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Tacoma, WA
98405

Telephone

+12533703431

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