There are a million ways to reach recovery. Don't let anyone tell you you can't find a way that works for you. - Jonathan Van Ness

Just because we mess up doesn't mean all the lessons we learned are undone. Healing can be imperfect.

More families should watch the Olympics together. To me, those are core American family values: Cheering on a corrupt institutional body that's super problematic with money and opportunity but we all pretend like it's an equal playing field and celebrate it - what's more American than that?

The reality is that LGBTQ+ people face challenges at disproportionally higher rates than their straight counterparts - drug use, sex work, and financial instability can be an unfortunate result. My privilege as a young cis white man whose parents weren't going to let me drown afforded me the ability to make those mistakes and live to talk about it.