Welcome to the Chaos Palace! We like weirdness here.

A few years ago, I started calling my house the Chaos Palace because it seemed like everything was always topsy-turvy. Eventually, living in a burbly, weird house full of creative craziness made me want to share some of my thoughts on:

having ADHD and anxiety (and parenting a kid with ADHD and anxiety)
being queer
living a life grounded in Jewish ideas
being Israeli-American
and anything else that contributes to a life that asks, “but why?”

What you’ll see in your inbox is a weekly newsletter (This Week at the Chaos Palace), wherein I explore the above themes through the lens of what’s happening at my Chaos Palace. Once a week you’ll also get a grab-bag of reported essays like these, Q&As with creatives and activists like these, and personal essays or poems like these.

If you’d like to support my work, you can subscribe for a low, low fee of $5 a month or $55 for the year. Or, you know, don’t. That’s fine, too! Life is complicated and expensive. Either way, thank you for being here with me.

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Welcome to the Chaos Palace is about coloring outside society's boring ol' lines. More specifically, it's about ADHD, parenting, queerness, and Judaism.

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Mikhal

@chaospalace

I'm a queer writer living in New Jersey with my wife and kids. I write about the weirdness in the world, the people who are doing things differently, and all the in-between spaces that bring joy to the madness.