Michón Neal's Blog, page 9
October 3, 2015
Unfenced Relationships – Facilitated by Sex 3.0!
As an #aromantic who grew up #poly and a longtime author of #polyfiction, I love that someone else gets this! It’s everything I’ve been thinking and writing about since I was a little kid. I now have a word to describe the way I’ve done relationships in my life and how I’ve written them in […]
September 29, 2015
Full-Stack Developer Before Birth by Michon Neal – GoFundMe
Ok, I know. I know! Bad Michon, taking forever to put up new posts and simply sharing articles from elsewhere. I have a really good excuse; I swear! See, I’ve received some amazing news in these last couple of weeks. And I’ve had to do some planning for how this will all work. On top […]
September 24, 2015
11 Things Someone Suffering From Endometriosis Understands | Prevention
That’s because they grow—and bleed—as if they were still at home in the uterus. “Every time a woman has a period, there are these micro-periods happening,” says Tamer Seckin, MD, a specialist in endometriosis in private practice in New York and the co-founder and medical director of the Endometriosis Foundation of America. The immune system […]
September 22, 2015
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers: Mayim Bialik
Neurons are my shiiiiiiiiiiiittttttt! Explosion. But seriously. Yeah, Brain and Mind Studies had me learning everything there is to know about how we think and how we feel and everything in between. And in my spare time I studied cosmology. Never really stopped learning about either, really. Or anything else that interests me. 
September 21, 2015
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Oh, would you look at that! Another way in which I beat the curve. The most effective groups in the cuilverse are led by women and/or those who are humble and competent rather than narcissistic and ignorantly confident. “In sum, there is no denying that women’s path to leadership positions is paved with many barriers […]
September 19, 2015
Living with PMS That Makes You Want to Die | Broadly
Dear God, I’d totally forgotten there was a name for such a nightmarish experience. All those hundreds of suicide attempts, the inexplicable hunger, rage, and depression. The never-ending panic attacks. Wanting to cut my organs out. Being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. Every female disorder seemed to have hit me: endometriosis, PCOS, and PMDD. I can’t […]
September 14, 2015
How is The Speed of Darkness Faster Than The Speed of Light? — From Quarks to Quasars
In the cuilverse, the deeper you go, the more you realize there’s so much more. That’s been my life and here is the scientific reason why. It’s why I can never settle for knowing. I have to go further. Like the child who continually asks why, the secret to progress is to never be comfortable […]
September 11, 2015
Lilith and Other Stories
So on top of sharing my personal thoughts on the irresistible and powerful Lilith, I’ve been working on the Human Monkeysphere Expansion Project, two new books-All That Glitters and The Tale of Benjamin-as well as learning how to code and doing my damndest to reunite my family. Yay!! What is all of that, anyway? Well, […]
September 4, 2015
My Universe
The heat was borderline oppressive, stacking on top of itself in thick blocks, barely letting heat waves escape it. Yet it wasn’t the wet, smothering neutron star that was a normal hot day in Cincinnati. I was in San Francisco and I could still breathe; my lungs weren’t crushed. Still, I wondered why so many […]
September 2, 2015
6 Reasons Lilith is Absolutely My Hero | Postmodern Woman
via 6 Reasons Lilith is Absolutely My Hero | Postmodern Woman. The other day I mentioned the lack of actual diversity and positive, realistic, emotionally intelligent role models in our media (as in entertainment) and literature. There are some: One of my favorite examples. Also, extremely relevant to this post. But not nearly enough. They’re […]
