Why Is (Insert Mental Health Condition Here) Hard to Talk About? – Part 1
Gene GlotzerPhoto by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash If we're going to have the big mental health conversation, there's something that we need to get out of the way first. It's a…
Mental Health – Let’s Have This Conversation
Photo by Stefano Pollio on Unsplash Last year, I wrote a piece for a friend's website called "The Conversation Around Mental Health Is Long Overdue - and We're Screwing It…
Sorry, I’ve Made a Mistake
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash This is a woe-is-me post, so take that into consideration before reading. I'll completely understand if you choose not to. I made a mistake the…
Let’s Talk About Sex
Photo by Dick Scholten from Pexels I'm pretty sure the last time I was involved in an honest, public conversation about sex was when I was thirteen. I was raised attending a Unitarian…
Conversations
Photo by Joshua Rodriguez on Unsplash The pandemic has highlighted many of our problems. One of the most disturbing, for me, is the complete lack of a national conversation. There's very little public…
A Conversation
Here is story number five in my 12 stories in 12 months challenge. For this one, the prompt was Rome and the word count was 1,200. To say the prompt…