Category: mental health
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Still the kid waiting to be chosen for the team…
Picture it: dropping your book in a pile of a thousand and hoping someone sees it. The odds are not in your favour
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And it goes on…
The Heart Remembers. A book about coming home, second chances, complicated family, and finding a woman who holds your soul in her hands. I cried a couple times writing it, and I hope that emotion reaches you.
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Thanks, Jenn’s dad.
There are few moments you can pin down as truly pivotal in life. But there’s one that truly changed my world.
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“We all need hope,” he said, offended.
The thing with issues with your brain is it’s awfully easy to think…well, yeah, it is all in my head.
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Sticking a feather up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Incoming rant… If you want a place at the table, then you should damn sure do the work to claim your place there.
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Please, don’t punish us.
We need you if we’re going to keep producing LGBTQ books. Without you and your support, we’re going to falter. Please, don’t let that happen.
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Accept that it’s hard
Trusting that people will still like you after they’ve spent time with you can be hard. Do it anyway. Even when you doubt yourself, even when you can’t believe that you’re worth their time, believe that they don’t expect you to be perfect. They just want you.
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A bow on the end of everything
And I’m feeling like a pair of shoes thrown over an electrical wire. The ones that tell people where to go to get what they want. They’re not attractive and only vaguely useful, and only select people look for them.


