A shorter, edited version of this essay first appeared in HuffPost. This is the full version, originally published at The Chaos Section. Last year I had to have a fairly minor surgery to repair my badly deviated septum. According to what I read today on a few different websites, the surgery I had costs on average… Continue reading

An edited version of this essay was published at HuffPost Personal I remember reading a story late last year about a 16-year-old kid in Alabama who called the LGBTQ crisis line instead of going through with a suicide pact that he and three of his friends had made. The 2024 election had just been called for Donald… Continue reading