It's officially Blaugust, so here I am, blogging! Whatever else happens, I've narrowly avoided crushing failure because I posted this one time.

I'm Kale. I've blogged sporadically over the past 10-12 years but haven't been able to hold one down for very long. I'm still not sure where this one fits into that pattern. At this point, it's more or less just a hobby journal, which mainly involves me talking about my stupid little crafts (and attempts to do them without spending money). I also do some horrible programming on the side — this blog runs on a homemade backend that's specialized to my own bizarre use case.

I'm not very interesting, so I spend some of my free time facilitating things with people who are more interesting than me. There's The Salad Bar, my Discord server (and the most social media-adjacent thing you'll get from me), and Salad Magazine, a quarterly web zine that accepts virtually any creative work you throw at it.

I don't have any ambitious plans for my blog output as my day job is back into effect with the new school year, but I'm aiming for once a week. Anything more will be a fun bonus surprise.

I'm surprisingly down to Earth and very funny, but only if I'm engaged with first. Feel free to drop something in the comments or my email inbox!