Paige Graffunder
Bio
Paige is a published author and a cannabis industry professional in Seattle. She is also a contributor to several local publications around the city, focused on interpersonal interactions, poetry, and social commentary.
Stories (99/0)
If You Don't Mean It Forever
I am going to preface this the same way I always preface my writing of this type: I am not a relationship or communication specialist, I am simply a person who communicates, and has put a lot of work into my communication style. I am also an avid observer of human behavior, and I have collected a series of observations when communicating with people who have not put the work into modify their social condition and those who have.
By Paige Graffunder3 years ago in Humans
Whirlwind of Eager F*ck Ups
I don’t talk about polyamory very much, because I learned a long time ago that my relationships function a lot better when I keep them to myself. Not to say that I am hiding anything, more just that scrutiny from the public into my personal life is completely unnecessary and I have no obligation to anyone to engage in it. Of course, I care about visibility and normalization of polyam relationships, but what I do not want is every single monogamy-centric-hetero-cis-normative-busy-body-Dr.-Phil-watching-armchair-therapist asking me questions like, “Which one is your real partner?” Or even more cringe-worthy, “Your husband let’s you do that?” There is a myriad of awful horrible questions that people who have only ever been exposed to the idea that monogamy as the only way that a healthy relationship can flourish, feel the right to ask polyam people. Set aside the lie that one must be in a romantic relationship to be happy and live a fulfilling life in the first place, because it too. is bullshit. Romantics should be an addition to your fulfillment, not the road to it.
By Paige Graffunder3 years ago in Humans
Music is the Weapon for my Self-Destruction
I’m 33 years old. You would think that would be plenty of time on the planet to learn the difference between certain things. While I am certainly incredibly good at differentiating some things like, coffee from tea for example, when it comes to human behavior and separating the genuine from the tantamountly false, I am notoriously miserable at it. I think some of that has to do with my neurodivergence, but I think a lot of it relates to a thing that I hadn’t really examined until I spoke to a friend about it a few nights ago.
By Paige Graffunder3 years ago in Beat
Unfathomable Distance
Tomorrow, January 20th, 2021 will mark a year since the first COVID-19 case was identified in the United States. In my state of Washington, a patient was given a diagnosis of the disease that was then confirmed by the CDC. The patient had returned from Wuhan on the 15th. While the official announcement was not made until the following day, the confirmation that the individual did have COVID was made on the 20th. I feel like with the inauguration of Biden, and the expected rowdiness of the event that this will be a thing that we overlook.
By Paige Graffunder3 years ago in The Swamp