27Oct

Do I exist in real life anymore? How would I know?

I feel so isolated and disconnected that I’m not even sure I actually exist in real life anymore,” she tweeted in 2022. I relate.

11Oct

The difference between living and waiting, and maybe even waiting around to die

This is not living. I am not living. I haven’t been for a long time. Something a friend shared with me reminded me of that.

13Mar

Three years in, I wouldn’t change a thing, except maybe I’d change everything

I’ve mostly been alone inside my studio apartment for 1,094 straight days, and I’m on fumes.

09Dec

Wondering what’s at the other end of the thousand-yard stare of a thousand days

Reflections on staying mostly isolated for 1,000 straight days during a pandemic, and what it’s done to mind and body.

19Sep

The one where I tell you I haven’t had a drink in a year

As of 11:18 p.m., I’m one year alcohol-free.

09Sep

9/11: Twenty years later, managing the pain pile-ons as a pandemic’s third winter approaches

I closed my bedroom door after 9/11. Whatever evil lurked outside my apartment would have to open an extra door to find me.

01Oct

Three years in, some nouns and verbs about being three years ‘out’

Three years ago today, I came out as a transgender woman. The past year has been the hardest of the three.

01Sep

Hurricane Laura dealt a severe blow to my hometown, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Here’s how to donate or help.

Here are links for helping Southwest Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. Please donate or help if you can, or share the links.

26Jul

Tom Hanks on surviving, breathing — and who is with us on our island

Tom Hanks is a big believer in breathing, I told a friend with PTSD seven years ago. Here are the quotes I shared with her.

05Apr

The mountain has come to me, and to us all

Years ago I wanted to see a mountain while working from home. The one now facing me, facing you, is invisible but enormous.

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Do I exist in real life anymore? How would I know?

The difference between living and waiting, and maybe even waiting around to die

Three years in, I wouldn’t change a thing, except maybe I’d change everything

Wondering what’s at the other end of the thousand-yard stare of a thousand days

The one where I tell you I haven’t had a drink in a year

9/11: Twenty years later, managing the pain pile-ons as a pandemic’s third winter approaches

Three years in, some nouns and verbs about being three years ‘out’

Hurricane Laura dealt a severe blow to my hometown, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Here’s how to donate or help.

Tom Hanks on surviving, breathing — and who is with us on our island

The mountain has come to me, and to us all