You don’t misunderstand free speech; you misunderstand the nature of the world — I would love for you to use my link if you need to sign up for a membership. At no additional cost, it will support my writing. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy…

TX Senate Bill 8 doesn’t care about the life of my kids — Today was the day I told my kids of the abortion that allowed their existence. How I walked a block from my apartment, my roommate holding my hand. I explained how I was in no fit state to raise a child then (wondered if they thought, silently, “or now”) Couldn’t even pay the…

January resolutions — Revolutions on an orange morning too early to be this warm staving off the pain through a silent shouted repetition of a few words spoken through clenched teeth of the cruelest woman I have ever met as she stared at my body — puberty mutated — hidden under pink marshmallow fluff of a hand-me-down sweatsuit…

For people who share the love language of gifts, some gifts can hurt your relationship — My husband doesn’t know it, but I’m still hurting from the anime cookbook he bought me 4 years ago. I finally gave it away last month because every time I looked at it, I questioned who he thought I was. It wasn’t only that it was a cookbook, making me…

OpenAI’s new chatbot is a fun educational model; like AI art, it should be used to inform — not replace — our creativity — Rachel Rosen, a rogue android from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” creates intricate sculptures from glass, metal, and plastic to convince the bounty hunter, Rick Deckard, that she is human. Her art is sought after in their world. She is more human than the (yes, human in the book)…

Why we should stop expecting gifts from each other during the holidays — I’ve been thinking a lot about gifting recently. A beloved friend of my family died last month, and writing has been hard with that grief. …

For your parent, your partner, your sibling, your friend, or your whoever, really anyone who loves you and who speaks the love language of gifts — I’m not your parent/sibling/spouse. I don’t know them. But I know that few of us who live in the real world truly want a $420 poop bag holder (but I won’t lie, many of us love looking at the Ridiculous but Awesome Guide from Goop. I always find most gift…