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Non-Toxic Positivity, Revisited

I don’t know about you, but my inbox is full of bad news these days. There’s so much happening that is genuinely frightening. This timeline doesn’t just suck, it seems to be...

Hindsight on Resistance

Whenever oppression gets bad, people find ways to resist and survive. In the present, looking back at how people resisted and survived, we know their strategies. At the time, those strategies had to be kept...

Honesty in Hell

Art is always introspective. It is an expression of the internal experience in some way. To observe one's own journey through life can be purely vain, or it can be a chance to...

Trauma for Sale, Part 2

It is not lost on me that my first part of this two-part piece concluded with asking for support. I do not like asking for support, contrary to what some people might think. It always...

Trauma for Sale, Part 1

Side hustles are no longer optional. Everybody has multiple sources of income, and they aren’t adding up for the vast majority of us. Years ago, I wrote that the gig economy is more like...