You Deserve People Who Show Up For You

August 5, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

A pink photograph of three statues of nude women posed together like close friends.

You deserve friends who check in—not just the day after, or the week after, but months after.

This Is Not a Normal Work Week

January 7, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

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.

We’re All Depressed. Let’s Play The Sims

December 3, 2020.Reading time 22 minutes.

I 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.

An Anxious Writer Joins Patreon

October 10, 2020.Reading time 12 minutes.

My 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.

These Are Not Conditions in Which to Thrive

March 22, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

This is a time to survive. Your only responsibility is to get through today.

The Ripple Pandemic: Coronavirus and Mental Health

March 15, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

What will COVID-19 mean for our mental health?

Confessions of a Burned Out Writer

February 17, 2020.Reading time 19 minutes.

Here’s what I know. My confidence is the lowest it has ever been.

There Is No Cure For Burnout

November 18, 2019.Reading time 27 minutes.

I’m afraid that there is no cure for burnout. After all, you can’t untoast toast.

The Dollhouse Obituary

September 7, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

“There is a beautiful, even respectful, relief in honoring people for who they really were.”

Herpes And Shame, Six Years Later

March 14, 2019.Reading time 16 minutes.

Healing isn’t fun or narratively appealing: it’s a whole lot of pulling off scabs and dissecting long broken bones that didn’t set properly. It’s hard.