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Let’s ALL commit to taking a risk today…

In today’s turbulent world it may seem strange that I am saying today it is more important then ever to take risks, but that is the idea I am proposing today. Whether the risk is talking to someone you normally wouldn’t, going skydiving, joining an organization you normally wouldn’t, taking your dream job or attending your first protest, do yourself a favor and make the leap. Taking risks will…

It's been a loooong time...but new post up.

I have been a little (translation – a lot) lost on this page and blog. I have been trying to figure out why and I think I finally have. I didn’t really know how I saw it. Well, that isn’t really accurate – I know how I see it, I just wasn’t writing completely through that lens. I knew all those years ago when I started this on blogger that it had to be named How I See It. I didn’t know why I was…

Full Disclosure - This post is transported (and updated) from an old site I worked with because I initially wrote it for here and put it there when content was needed. It is 100% my writing and is simply being placed here where it belonged all along.

Full Disclosure – This post is transported (and updated) from an old site I worked with because I initially wrote it for here and put it there when content was needed. It is 100% my writing and is simply being placed here where it belonged all along. Welcome, my true crime friends. If you are obsessed with watching documentaries about Bundy, Dahmer, or Gacy, this is the place for you. Come on…

The October 1998 beating and death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard left an indelible mark on those of us who were growing up LGBTIA+ in the 1990s...

Let’s be honest here. Things for marginalized communities are particularly bad everywhere right now, including (or especially depending on your point of view) the States. I have to ask a question though…did it really get that much better at any point? Because to be honest, I don’t think it did. AN OVERVIEW OF THE 1990S AND lgbtqia+ If you weren’t a closeted teen in the 1990s (or even a teen for…

Well, how about that?

So, I haven’t written in awhile. Really, I have no excuse other than, you know, life. However, recently I have been doing some thinking about that. I love to write, I love to blog and I love to unapologetically be the person who is not consumed by my career. I love to be the big nerd in the room, who honestly believes it is not what you do for a living but what you do for humanity that is what…

My True Coming Out Story

I recently fully came out of the closet. Not about being a lesbian. I have been out about that for varying times to different people, but the final coming out of that particular closet was a decade ago. No, no people (AKA you Sardynski). To actual come out of the closet about my sexual orientation was actually not overly scary as a whole. I knew from my past history that my family would love me…

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME…

I have been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember. I can’t remember a time in my life where I wasn’t. As a kid, I can still remember the tiny gloves I had. I remember learning how to grip a ball more than I remember learning how to play the piano, which I actually took lessons for. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know how to point with the glove and throw to that spot, and following…

Yes, I am Mom

In today’s society it is normal for families to be made up of many different kind of mixes. No longer is this the world of racially ambiguous Dad, Mom, 2.5 kids, dog and white picket fence. This is the world of advancing melting pot families – at least on first look. Being a part of one of those families however is completely different then checking a box for diversity. I love my wife and my…