Single, Solitary, and Alone

I have always been single. My birth certificate says “Single”, which I think is on a lot of people’s birth certificates, and is intended to indicate that I wasn’t part of a birth with multiple babies. For me, as a baby, I was truly single. I was taken from my mother at birth and given […]

The Whatifs

I wish I had something upbeat and positive to say, but these days are really a bit of a bummer. I worry that I’m making a mistake moving out on my own. What if I get hurt? What if the crushing loneliness kills me? What if I make a bad decision? What if my car […]

The Middle of Everything

Anyone who says you can’t open the book of someone’s life up in the middle and start reading is wrong. Look, you’re doing it right now. I’m in the middle of everything. It’s the middle of my life, the middle of overwhelming changes, the middle of the night. In some ways, things have gone to […]