Hope Returned In The Most Unexpected Way

Something happened yesterday which unexpectedly freed me of the hopelessness that's hitched a ride for much of the past decade - my landlord raised the rent. I refuse to pay the new amount, so I need to find a new place to live by mid-April. I never wanted to live where I'm based now, heck,… Continue reading Hope Returned In The Most Unexpected Way

An Uncomfortable Age

It is my birthday today. I'm thirty-nine. It's an uncomfortable age, an age I've been feeling embarrassed about turning, which is, I know, utterly ludicrous and tragic. On Facebook, I made it so that only I can see my birthdate. It wasn't because of my age, though, but because of messages that come through from… Continue reading An Uncomfortable Age