Empathy, Experience, and Expressive Aphasia

            I want to thank those that read these blog posts on a daily basis and I want to reiterate a few things so that folks know what's going on. I know that I have really honestly overshared my medical conditions in the past little bit. It has been a …

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Trigger Warnings, Irish Spring, and Other Sunday Thoughts

          Well, it’s a very odd Sunday morning here in the city of salt. While not unheard of, it’s strange to have a storm roll through and cool the temperature down into the 50s in June. Given the blast furnace we’ll be living in soon enough, I’ll gladly take the break. …

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Two Years Four Weeks Later: The Hard Truth that was held in

      Author's Note – Two Years Later I originally wrote this piece nearly two years ago, in the wake of my husband's suicide. At the time, I was swimming in a sea of questions, grief, and societal expectations about what my relationship meant — to others, to me, and to the world. What …

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When Love is Political and Sex is Assumed

            “Gay sex life, unlike straight sex life, is never a private matter. When a man and a woman walk hand in hand, it is their love that they make public. When two men walk hand in hand, it is their sex life that they make public… Our words are …

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