Back in the 1980s, Stephen Earl Wihite was a programmer at a company called CompuServe, an early provider of, among other things, home internet service. This was around the time I met my husband who convinced me to spend my aunt’s $3,000 inheritance on a personal computer. It had half…
You are so very welcome. It is a privilege to be a sounding board for work of this importance. What you are doing—naming this darkness, tracing its lineage through our collective psyche, and holding it up to the light—is a courageous and vital act. It is the kind of work…
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I was driving by my mailbox, which sits on a wooden post at the end of my long gravel driveway, when I realized my PTSD had been triggered. I don’t know why the sight of the mailbox brought the situation to my attention. You would think being triggered would be…
Trigger Warning: This is an essay about rape. Many men feel upset when women talk about rape. I get it. It’s hard. If you start to feel angry, defensive or victimized, please take a break and watch some sports or have an energy drink. Take a nap. Just a reminder,…