This Is Not a Normal Work Week
Is your mind racing while you try to focus on a task you’d find simple on any other day? That’s because you just witnessed an attempted coup.
Read MoreIs your mind racing while you try to focus on a task you’d find simple on any other day? That’s because you just witnessed an attempted coup.
Read MoreWhile I’ve alluded to the less than ideal circumstances surrounding my herpes diagnosis, I’ve never told the story from start to finish.
Read MoreI always know that my seasonal depression has begun when I spend more time playing The Sims than I do living my flesh and blood life.
Read MoreIt’s 2020 and SNL is still writing sketches about a nightmare ex-boyfriend who takes “fistfuls of Valtrex just to get out of bed in the morning.”
Read MoreThis is a time to survive. Your only responsibility is to get through today.
Read MoreI’m afraid that there is no cure for burnout. After all, you can’t untoast toast.
Read MoreIf you’re making a romantic comedy, you need to write a relationship — and a love interest — worth rooting for.
Read MoreNo one ever talks about how sexual harassment disrupts your ability to just do your damn job.
Read MoreRejection is always a risk because people are complicated and life is unfair. That rejection is unfair doesn’t make it sting any less.
Read MoreViruses do not care who we are. Viruses do not exist to exact karmic punishment. They are not agents of destiny or markers of character. They are not concerned with our petty human stories about who matters and who doesn’t. To COVID-19, we are just bodies.
Read MoreMy dream in life is to be able to support myself with my writing. I do not know if that day will ever come, not because of my talent, or my voice, or my courage, but because I am garbage at email.
Read MoreTelling someone you’re interested in that you have herpes means making yourself vulnerable.
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