So I’m turning 29: World Suicide Prevention Day 2018

Originally posted on Facebook on August 31, 2018.  Hi guys. Somehow I've made it through another year, and I lived to tell the tale. Turning 29 feels old because I'm still young inside. It's kind of like the end of the book "Fog Magic" when Greta tells her father she thinks getting older is like …

The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse

Originally posted on Facebook April 20, 2018.  So for those of you who've been around me a while know that I came out of a fundamentalist religious background and I worked for several years to weed those things out of my life. Those old thought patterns were rooted in some people's unhealthy desires to control …

Grief is complicated

Originally posted on April 4, 2018.  So I went on a journey this last weekend to find my grandparents’ graves. I was in Houston anyway after dropping a friend off at the airport and I don’t get much time off to go adventuring between work and school. I didn’t expect it to be so gut-wrenching. …

#MeToo: It took me three years to unfriend him {For the Huffington Post}

Content note: sexual assault I told myself that he’d just made a mistake. I was 25. I’d never dated anyone. He was my study partner, helping me get through senior level classes. He knew I was planning to move out of state after I graduated college in a few months. “Neither one of us have …

So I’m turning 28. | Donating my birthday to TWLOHA

  Here’s a little secret most people don’t know about me. I can’t even count the number of times I almost died. This is not an exaggeration. People ask me, how could you want to just end everything? You have your whole life ahead of you, you’re good at writing, and you’re so happy all …