January 15th, 2019 Hi. This is about me. I’m the guy in this photo. Not the Joker. The guy behind him working on a dream. I was born in the 80’s and am a lifelong comics and pop culture fan. I’ve expressed myself artistically in a lot of different ways over the years — IContinue reading “Introduction 2019”
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One Year
December 9th, 2018 One year. This is going to sound stupid, but at first I wasn’t sure if I was ever going to feel again. When I finally started living in my own body full-time again, getting to know rooms and hallways I’d always seen but mostly avoided, I felt a numbness, a void. LikeContinue reading “One Year”
Find Your Shovel
November 29th, 2018 Believe in yourself. When I arrived at work this morning, all the hubbub and hullabaloo was about the missing shovel. No one could find it. I offered my help. “EVERYONE already tried looking for it.” “Don’t even bother. We all looked. You’ll never find it.” “I thought I could find it, too.Continue reading “Find Your Shovel”
Stan Lee
November 12th, 2018 With great power comes great responsibility. I’m feeling a lot of feelings right now. Some of them okay, some of them fine and some of them the downright worst. It may sound absurd and naive, but I came to the internet to find solace. To find intimate words and feelings and thoughtsContinue reading “Stan Lee”
Imposter Syndrome & The Flying Squirrel
October 12th, 2018 In an attempt to help people get inside my characters’ heads, I’ll try to find simplified examples from the internet and use them to begin a discussion and illustrate certain behaviors or traits. Ashley Maypole has a lot going on — we’ll talk more about the other stuff later on — butContinue reading “Imposter Syndrome & The Flying Squirrel”
Two Things
September 13th, 2018 I think, at the end of the day, that human beings just really need two things: to feel like they’re being heard, and to feel like they’re loved. And I think that when a person isn’t getting either or both of those things is when they start acting not as themselves, orContinue reading “Two Things”