<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Siobhan Mountain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siobhan Mountain]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:19:18 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.siobhanmountain.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[life upgrade.]]></title><description><![CDATA[time to make one happen, they say. although, this time, I do believe they’re right. here is what I am proposing for myself: no to social (save for this, which brings me joy solely because I have no idea nor interest in who, exactly, is or could be reading this; the anonymity in this case […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/life-upgrade</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d39</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:44:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[estimated delivery: eod wednesday.]]></title><description><![CDATA[And so here it is, and there it goes. I have sent off the package I promised I would send back in October of last year. Never mind that it is July, nine months later. By now, I could have had a whole other person who lived inside me and either already exited my body […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/estimated-delivery-eod-wednesday</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d33</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:39:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[congratulations; you’ve lost your mind.]]></title><description><![CDATA[signed, the biz you handed $30 over to for some mysterious rEaDiNg that promises everything and (possibly) delivers nothing but a gut punch followed by an uppercut followed by a right hook, then a left, until, finally, a smash to the instep, fist-slam to the groin and an elbow to the nose which then, of […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/congratulations-you-ve-lost-your-mind</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d35</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:28:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[no, thanks. we’re done talking now.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In that moment, I was only looking for an ear, some support, but What you met me with instead was a scoff, much criticism without  missing a  single fucking beat. XX this is why people our age are getting divorced, by the way.]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/no-thanks-we-re-done-talking-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d34</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:21:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[a message to the one who never messages back.]]></title><description><![CDATA[globes and charts and maps and dynamite and romanticizing everything and nothing all at once. Wanna just throw a dart at a map and… go wherever it lands? I do. Wanna just surround all your shit with little dynamite sticks and light a match? I do. XX P.S. Have you ever looked into what your […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/a-message-to-the-one-who-never-messages-back</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d37</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:25:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[banshee queen.]]></title><description><![CDATA[You leave, I turn the furnace up to eighty-five degrees, dance naked down the halls, through the house. The pipes clank on. Three floors up, caught in the walls: a symphony of screams, a hissing, horrible, most fascinating catacomb; like all of the women in me awakening, besotted and screeching, escaping, sprinting the whole way […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/banshee-queen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d3b</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:59:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[recognizing when it’s time to leave.]]></title><description><![CDATA[right about when it starts to feel like your partner has the emotional acuity of a toddler hooked on antidepressants laced with extended-release steroids. XX]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/recognizing-when-it-s-time-to-leave</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d36</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:43:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[smoking indoors.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I get nervous when the fire alarm goes off Not because I am worried  about the house burning down or that I am going to burn down with it But because I am afraid of disturbing the neighbors; how they might say, how fucking dare she make so much noise, and blame me  for how […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/smoking-indoors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d3a</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:24:27 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[cosmic connection.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I fear you are becoming an obsession. An addiction, really.But also, I think we’ve been here before. Here is what I need to say before you start to believe I’m uninterested, or worse, incapable of reciprocation (when that could not be farther from the truth): I’m sorry for backing off a lot since all of this started. But […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/cosmic-connection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d38</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:12:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[shoulda been a theatre kid.]]></title><description><![CDATA[How can you miss someone so much you haven’t completely met? Make it make sense. Because the math is not mathing. XX]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/shoulda-been-a-theatre-kid</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058a3c5b848101517d32</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:36:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[wet dream.]]></title><description><![CDATA[You asked me to help you fix it. The truth is, I don’t know that I can.  As terrible as it sounds, I think a small part of me always knew that this would be the case.  For that,  I’m sorry. I find myself totally, irrevocably, and quite possibly unforgivably responsible for dragging you down, sucking […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/wet-dream</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2f2</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:06:15 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[team safety meeting. and by team, i mean a team of one with multiple personalities.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deep breaths. Reminders that we can choose to do something or nothing at all. Or perhaps a combination of the two, depending on our perspective. Time is both cruel and unnecessarily forgiving. Quiet your voice enough, and whatever came before and might come after fades, floats away; ceases to matter. I am reminding myself—maybe just for […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/team-safety-meeting-and-by-team-i-mean-a-team-of-one-with-multiple-personalities</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2ec</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:57:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[rebirth.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I find no surprise in the exhilaration that comes from changing environments. I would change mine, moving about from town to town, every day if I could. To burden and unburden myself with carrying of all my baggage as I embrace life with fresh eyes and a revolving perspective despite the constant tethering to (what […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/rebirth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2ef</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:37:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a new year.]]></title><description><![CDATA[and outside, the weather be weatherin’. Jesus. My last post was in November. Although, considering this now, the irregularity with this entire thing is very much “on brand,” so I suppose evening mentioning November is a waste of time. Let’s start over. It is a new-ish year, and all. And we all know that it’s […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/it-s-a-new-year</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2ed</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:14:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a1f64a_4e035b2d27044e13b43467716b8eee1a~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_768,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[a long december.]]></title><description><![CDATA[That’s it. That’s the title: a long december. No context, no mercy. let’s see if we can get this all out without overthinking it. Too much to report. Too much to turn the spotlight on. It’s too much; all too much. C’est la vie and all of that shit. Right? Right on, brother. Spoke to […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/a-long-december</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2f0</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:54:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[what to do when you are feeling patronized.]]></title><description><![CDATA[answer: to be determined. It’s one of those days where the most ridiculous word is triggering me. Crafts*. Crafting*. Crafty*. A little context would be helpful here, sure, but I don’t feel like digging into it right now. The question is: What do we do when we know something is ridiculous . . . but […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/what-to-do-when-you-are-feeling-patronized</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2eb</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:51:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[red knife sheath.]]></title><description><![CDATA[or maybe it’s a pocket. who really knows. Keeping this short today. Maybe. We’ll see, especially considering I’m typing this and trying to watch for a kid to get off the bus. Call me a worrier, maybe — but the dark parts of me are always convinced one of them (the kids, that is) is […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/red-knife-sheath</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2f1</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:05:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a1f64a_0e1cc80fb3fb41f7a608abb8e3e08a97~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[tuesday thoughts.]]></title><description><![CDATA[because it is tuesday, after all. first – when you remove the desire to be validated by others, life becomes easier to navigate. what a stupid, simple lesson to learn. and what a silly time I have had all these years struggling to learn it. if I didn’t already know how smart I am, I […]]]></description><link>https://www.siobhanmountain.com/post/tuesday-thoughts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4058cf42c05251bc3c2ee</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:22:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a1f64a_375f50bdc2d34a8696872d2a281bf08c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_961,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Siobhan Mountain</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>