Big Thoughts (Enter at your own risk)
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy
Part IV – Making it to the end I spent an hour in hysterics after hanging up with the midwife. I didn’t think I would recover from being told no…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy
Part III – Get over it, whiney girl… Somehow politicians and strangers are still arguing their right to control the bodies of anyone with a uterus. Often times those people…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy
Part II – Just do what you’re told After reading in court documents last week that three Red states have listed a reduction in teen pregnancy as a negative, I…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy
My personal story in four parts This is going to be a long one, folks, so get comfortable. Those who know me IRL shouldn’t be too surprised by my need…
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Not What I Wanted to Write
Finding my way through Last week I intended to write my first new post about my writing journey. It was going to be good, with pictures from where I started,…
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Like a Snowflake in a Box…
It only takes one trip through the Salt Lake valley to see how fond the founders were of keeping things in order. It’s the streets. It took a year of…
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Hear me out: If I can be an Ally, anyone can.
Hi everyone, I’m Rich, my pronouns are he/him. My wife asked that I repost this “article” I wrote as an Ally for our Queer and Allies affinity group at work.…
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Trauma, Girls, and the Fiction Writer
As a writer of fiction, one of my main goals when writing a story is to create characters in a way that will make readers connect to them. Each person…