I’m mostly just trying to figure out how to do “human being.”

The tools I use are writing, reading, relationships…. And like the rest of us, my best tool is my own story and its unique collection of perspectives (writer, teacher, professor, autistic, sexual abuse survivor, truth-teller, parent, aspiring artist).

What’s YOUR story?

The latest:

What’s keeping me writing this week, #2
Yes! I have indeed been writing! And Taylor Swift is involved. Sort of. Go ahead; read about it.
New habit?! What’s keeping me writing this week.
I am the worst habit-former in the world. My longest streak on the latest habits-and-routines app I am using (Fabulous is really fabulous) is a whopping TWO DAYS. (And that's not …
Fear of the Unknown (Stories I thought I Knew)
Happy to share this piece from over at my Substack. It's part of what I think will be a new book, memoir-ish and full of my shitshow trauma learning over the …
What it felt like to face the man who sexually abused me in court
It felt strong. It felt brave. It felt powerful. It also felt sad. Unexpectedly, desolately sad. I've always said "When I have an emotion, I'm usually last to know." That's not …
Convicted. At last. For now.
Yesterday I and a few other people abused by my childhood coach saw him sentenced to prison in Texas. Ricardo Delgado's story in the San Antonio Express-News here. Zachary Taylor Wright's …
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