I wanted to wish you a happy Pride… which I realize I’m a little late with. Pride Weekend came and went July 14 and 15th here in San Diego. From what I hear, San Diego Pride is one of the biggest, coolest, most awesomest Pride celebrations in the country. But, Read more…
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, someone asked me, “What are your preferred pronouns?” I was sitting outside a Starbucks with my girlfriend, chatting about types of hot peppers, when one of her mom-friends walked out of the Starbucks with another mom, their two toddlers in tow. “LT!” Read more…
One day, I might explain in greater detail why 2017 was both one of the hardest years and one of the best years in my life… so far. For now, I will say… It was the year I had my mid-life crisis, of that there is no doubt, the crisis Read more…
I’m so close to finishing Reverie, y’all. And I also woke up to the good news that Roy Moore lost in the special election in Alabama! (* non-Americans: see explanation below) What-what! When the national news had been reporting that “anything can happen in this election,” I thought to myself, Read more…
Regarding the Las Vegas shooting: Automatic assault rifles do not need to be legal in the United States or anywhere else. Yes, yes, the right to bear arms is a Constitutional right. Okay, no problem. Personally, I’m not a fan of handguns, shotguns, rifles, semi-automatic weapons — actually, I’m not Read more…
I am a white southerner from a historically privileged family. There. I said it. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Of course, like most Americans, my story is a little more complicated than that. I’m not accepted as a southerner because I didn’t (completely) grow up Read more…
If you haven’t watched it yet, you need to see it. You need to educate yourself by getting inside the mindset of the white supremacists who would have us believe that their tribe is going to save this country. Look, I don’t like the news, either, but sometimes we need Read more…
As an author who publishes pretty much exclusively on Amazon (and yeah, you can yell at me for supporting the Evil Empire if you want, but it was a financial decision), I use their Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) platform to advertise my books quite a bit. For some reason, I Read more…
“You can’t tell white people a story about white people and expect them to understand.” A girl I dated almost twenty years ago — a wonderful, strong, brave woman of color — told me that. I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but I remember that I was the white person Read more…
A lot of the people around me are bleeding right now. This new Trump-Pence administration our collective short-sightedness and apathy has created in the United States is already leading to a maelstrom of troubling consequences. I get Washington Post pop-ups on my computer, and besides the OH MY GOD PLEASE Read more…