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Perpetual Gloom: The Door Swings Open

Begin with the moment everything tilts—Book 1’s opening excerpt.

Oct 8 • 

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September 2025

The Day My Airstream Outshone David Sedaris

What Hollywood discovered in 274 sf of polished aluminum

Sep 18 • 

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Notes From The Relec:

A Muse With No Map, Finding Creativity in Unlikely Corners

Sep 17 • 

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August 2025

There Was This One Time...

PART 1: When I sat across from two murderers

Aug 29 • 

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There Was This One Time; When the Water Rose

I was 16, he was reckless

Aug 14 • 

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July 2025

There Was This One Time:

When I Had a Mentor Whose Husband Cooked the Books for the Mob

Jul 16 • 

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June 2025

The Slave Ship We Refuse to See

Op-Ed

Jun 30 • 

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There Was This One Time

The Tattoo That Got Away

Jun 23 • 

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To ALL the politicians who keep underestimating us—

Let me make something clear:

Jun 16 • 

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An Open Letter to David Hogg

(from someone who’s been in the trenches too long to be dazzled by youthful fire alone)Open Letter to David Hogg

Jun 14 • 

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There Was This One Time:

Waiting for Armageddon at Fast-Gas

Jun 8 • 

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May 2025

There Was This One Time:

When A Broken Gas Pedal Taught Me A Life Lesson

May 19 • 

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