Have you known folks throughout your life who like to say outrageous things and wait to get a reaction out of people? Then, they follow it up with a quick, “I’m just kidding!” These are the self-proclaimed “ballbusters,” or folks who like to joke around. …

When you’re a freelancer, have a trauma condition, and you get burned by a client…it can be massively hard to bounce back — The story I am about to tell occurred well over a year ago. It has not only taken me that long for me to wrap my head around the situation and learn to progress from it, but also to rectify my anger about the whole thing. …

Being diagnosed at 28, and what that means — I feel as though I have been absent for a very long time. Not just from Medium, and my writing as a whole, but also from the rest of my life. I don’t think I handled my PTSD diagnosis well, but it’s getting better all the time. …

I have (consensual) access to someone else’s Instagram. I won’t bother explaining why. The feed of their followers is rife with pictures of random things. Makeup, high heels, trees, flowers, booze, skylines, beer flights, drag queens, typewriters, ukuleles, food people didn’t cook, food people did cook, drunk people, sober…

Since Mike Pence visited the Richard Rodgers theatre on November 18th, there has been feedback that the Hamilton cast, and namely Brandon Dixon, should not have offered a now infamous post-curtain speech. Dixon concisely expressed that certain people, many of whom were on stage, were “alarmed and anxious” that the…

After almost four years in Los Angeles, I had done what any sensible girl had done: I had obtained a bachelor’s degree, done some waitressing and bartending, gotten a nose job, been a fully clothed background extra in a porno (which never got released, so don’t even open that tab…

Part 1: How Strippers Get Paid When I was a stripper, people were surprisingly curious about how I made money. “So, you’re a contractor?” men would often ask. “No, technically I’m running my own business,” I would tell them, and this was true. It wasn’t that I felt a strong need to correct them. I’m…

Part 3: Misdirected Revenge — late June, 2016 (In case you missed it… Part 2) The launch party being hosted by the theater happens in excess of three weeks before the beginning of the actual one-act festival. There is a fair amount of ceremony just for ceremony’s sake. We are told to dress “red-carpet-ready.” There…

Part 2: Plans of Attack — June, 2016 (In case you missed it…. Part 1) All festival participants have the option of submitting a “video diary” in order to help with promotion, and to win an additional prize. I’m not a textbook overachiever, but in college I typically took advantage of extra credit, when available. …