How I Live with What I Did
This is the question no one asks out loudbut everyone carries in their eyeswhen they look at me. How do
I Am Not Your Lesson, But You Can Still Learn from Me
I was never your case study.Never your headline filler.Never your cautionary tale to share at partieswhen the conversation needed drama.
To My Daughter, If You Ever Hear the Other Version First
There will come a day, maybe sooner than I hope,when you’ll type my name into a search bar. You’ll find
Shame, Shadow, and the Strange Power of Telling the Truth
Shame isn’t loud.It’s quiet.It sits in the corners.It watches you speak and whispers,“They wouldn’t love you if they knew.” I’ve
Living Without the Mask: The Strange Freedom of Having Nothing Left to Hide
There was a time I wore my persona like armour.Polished.Charismatic.Strategic.Always ready with the right words, the right image, the right
The Apology I Never Sent (But Meant Every Word Of)
I’ve written this a hundred times.In my head.On paper.In drafts I deleted before they finished saving. It always started the
The Man They Made of Me: Living with a Public Identity I Never Chose
I didn’t create him.The man you saw in the headlines.The so-called scammer.The dangerous one.The joke.The villain.The meme. I didn’t make
Confessions of the Aftermath: What I Said, Didn’t Say, and Should Have Said
In the days after everything collapsed,my voice didn’t sound like mine.It was rehearsed.Filtered.Clenched behind my teeth like I was
They Wanted Me to Disappear. I Wrote Instead
After the collapse,after the memes,after the sentence,after the world decided who I was— I did the thing no one expected.
I Was Raised by Systems That Couldn’t Hold Me
They didn’t call it abandonment.They called it protection.A better path.A placement.A decision made in my best interest. They took me