Big Thoughts (Enter at your own risk)
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Truth & Tourism – A Horror Story
Imagine being four years old. Your name is Dorothy Good. Your parents are unstable both financially and mentally, making your homelife chaotic, and your mother is pregnant again. You suffer…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy – Part IV
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
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
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 – Part I
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…