I Had Secret Surgery This Week

Before you get mad, let me explain

Even though I was in in the hospital for a few days (so this might a little dodgy here or there…forgive any typos please!):

Your work helps someone work....

Upholds an unfolding memoir and archive of words....

And allows for Reader Scholarships to anyone who asks or needs (my policy, always).

DISCLAIMER: If you see smiling photos of someone after an operation (as you will here), or even that they’re posting (as I am now), please keep in mind that you never know what someone prepared ahead of time…. how they’re moving in day to day life (example: It is very hard for me to swallow and thus talk right now, but you can’t see that in a photo. A smile is a smile)… And so on.

I’m bad at business in the sense I give everything away for free (and hahahahaha I probably always will because life is short and then we die so capitalism does not motivate me!!!)....

But, honest truth: Trying to work hard no matter what life throws my way is hard.

So your caring and sharing really DOES matter to this one little Dickonson drip. I am a Jenna Ortega at heart and always will be. It will not warm your cockles. I will not inspire you….

I will just tell the truth.

THANK YOU, in every way, for purpose, passion, a place in life

I had secret surgery this week.

Before you get mad, let me explain:

There is a lot going on in my life that I don’t share.

Not because I don’t think having anyone who cares enough to keep track of someone else’s life is a surreal gift in of itself (it never stops feeling somewhat undeserved, but so deeply ‘saving’ at times)… But I am actually a painfully private person.

I’m sure you’re going to read that and say, “You’re a writer. That’s bullsh*t”.

Many people think that because I write about one specific topic (in a fairly specific way that thus makes it feel ‘safe’) since I was pretty young, I am an open book. Or that because I’ve written books I’m an open book. Or that because I perform stories that aren’t mine on stage, it makes a spotlight comfortable.