Hello, it’s me again.
I’m Sra, 40-something, autistic and queer, grew up in SLC and transplanted in PDX. I currently live alone with my cats Mulder and Scully. I was trained in linguistics and the German language in undergrad, and I worked in the legal industry as an admin for a few years during undergrad and after, then went to law school myself. After law school, I shifted career paths again, and spent a decade working in a global corporate function, learning how to source goods and services from suppliers for business needs, and eventually shifting my focus to people and teaching procurement functional learning, and professional and leadership development skills. I also realized in my late 30’s that I’m autistic, and I spent my last couple corporate years actively advocating for disability and neurodiversity inclusion via an employee resource group. For the past year, I’ve been in full mid-life crisis mode, weathering many transitions - I left my corporate role and have been taking a midlife retirement year during which I’m fixing up my house and working on healing my heart, mind, and body and refocusing how I want to spend the second half of my life both for myself and for the impact I want to leave on the world.


Where Has Bunsnip* Been?
From 2006, I published bunsnip.com quite regularly for over six years, and considered myself part of the culture of Web 1.0 bloggers, before YouTubers and later social media influencers were a thing. I didn’t have huge following, but I had decent organic engagement in those early years. I took a major break from posting blogs in about 2013, right after I finished law school. I was so depressed then (law school was one of the toughest periods of my life), and as a stream-of-consciousness writer, the darkness I felt at the time was showing up so strongly in my written voice, that I felt horrible to continue publishing blogs.

I began to publish again for a short time in 2018, right after my father died, and four years after my brother died in 2014. I was deeply grieving, and was going through a process of radically exploring my emotional world through making art and pursuing non-traditional healing methods.  I really understood at that time what it meant to lose your mind, and I think that shows in some of what I was posting in 2018. But, I learned through that time and the years since that there is always a rational basis for “crazy”, that there is a fine line between crazy and brilliant. I have grown a wealth of compassion and understanding for people who find that edge of sanity and need mental, emotional, or spiritual healing. There is a special kind of wisdom earned through suffering griefs that can open your heart to the suffering of others.

In my path of healing, I connected with spirituality in a way that brought me ironically full circle from my upbringing in Utah Mormonism, to my 18 years of Atheism, and back to spirituality. My path was a combination of learning about global conspiracy and ancient aliens theories, and through practicing mind-body connecting and somatic techniques like breathwork, yoga, tai chi, qigong. And finally through exploring an astrology-based consciousness mapping and an individual authority system called Human Design or Gene Keys. 20-something Sra would be appalled at 40-something Sra’s beliefs, but 20-something Sra ain’t been through what I’ve been through yet. It’s easy to cast judgment when we haven’t been through similar circumstances.

During my recent blogging break from 2018-2023, I’ve been working on developing my skills with speaking over writing. Professionally, I invested a lot of time during these years practicing presenting, hosting, coaching, and consulting in my roles. Personally, I have been sharing video diaries, travelogues, and guitar singing videos, along with my instant photography, via social media Web 2.0 platforms. You’ll find that kind of content @bunsnip on IG, FB, TT and YT. But, there’s no substitute for good oldschool web 1.0 blogging, so I’m back at it again here on bunsnip.com.

Thanks for following along!

~Sra

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*bunsnip is a word I coined in college when I couldn’t remember the word ‘houndstooth’, the classic pattern.