From the desk
Six short essays.
The books are the long version. These are kitchen-table pieces on coming out, inner bullying, and showing up — in Sonora, Kentucky, and wherever the talk is needed.
August 2026 · 4 min
The bully inside the closet
Inner homophobia is still bullying. It just happens in a quieter room — the one you carry after the hallway goes still.
August 2026 · 4 min
The cartoon bully is a lie
Textbook definitions keep selling a kid, a lunchroom, a shove. Real bullying is more boring — and more durable — than that.
August 2026 · 3 min
A week you can actually live
Hectic schedules steal the little pleasures that were already here. Happiness, in this house, is seven small practices — not a mountain to climb.
August 2026 · 3 min
Why the signed copy matters
Amazon will get you a book by Thursday. A signed paperback from the kitchen table takes a few extra days — and it has a person on the other end.
August 2026 · 4 min
A bullying prevention speaker who will actually show up
I live in Sonora, Kentucky — Hardin County. I will get on a plane. The talk is not a slogan. It is the same work as the books, said out loud.
August 2026 · 3 min
You only have to stop lying to the page
Coming-out stories do not all start with a parade. A lot of them start with one sentence you have been avoiding — written down, not performed.