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Maternity Ward. Psych Ward. Repeat.

Mark Your Calendars for Open Secrets Live in NYC on May 3, 2025

How Bob Dylan and Timothée Chalamet Helped Heal a Rift with My Son

Open Secrets Live in NYC, May 3, 2025

The Shadow in Me

Dear Daddy Advice Column, December 2024: Finding a Job That Pays Decently, Taking Care of Aging Parents, and When to Walk Away from a Friendship

Balancing a Busy, Full-Time Writing Career with Fatherhood Is More Challenging Than I Ever Expected

I’m a Senior Who Was Evicted from My Hamptons Home After 35 Years and Have Nowhere to Go

Solo Polyamory as a Queer Person on the Autism Spectrum

Wrestling with Risk as a Parent

My Adoption Non-Journey

What I Learned from Posing for Porn Site SuicideGirls

Why I’m Still Holding onto My High School Underwear

I Studied Queer Pornography in Law School and Was Told the Subject Would Ruin My Career

Drama-Free: My Facebook Group about Dating App Dudes that Caused Some Drama

Pride Parade on Aisle 3

Dear Daddy Advice Column, October 2024: Sex, Dating, and Love Amidst Health Issues, And How to Find The Domination You Deserve

Can You Solve the Halting Problem of Pain?

How I Coped with the Death of My Partner of 22 Years

How I Keep My Love of Music Alive as a Deaf Person

Please don't say "Sorry for your loss"

How to Practice Consent within BDSM, Kink, and Submission

I Had to Leave My State of Tennessee to Get An Abortion Post-Roe v. Wade Even Though My Health Was At Risk

Introducing Advice Column Dear Daddy

After a Splashy Book Deal, I Got Dropped By My Publisher, But I Kept On Writing

This Job Will Kill Me If I Let It

Me & Amy Pascal's Pubes

The Children of the Russian Spy Couple Were Lied To

My Abstract Period

My Baby Reindeer Days

Paid Call for Personal Essay Submissions

There’s Something Wrong with My Body, But Doctors Can’t Tell Me What It Is

Paid Call for Personal Essay Submissions

You May Not Notice My Disability

Secrets of the New York City Subway

July Discount - Help Fund New Personal Essays!

Riding Through Anxiety

There’s No Wrong Way to Grieve and No Wrong Time to Come Out

Counting: A Midlife Inventory of Gain and Loss

Better Man

After Hours, a Postscript

Am I California Sober?

Audio: Rachel Kramer Bussel on Why Her Mental Health Drastically Improved When She Stopped Posting on Social Media

5 Personal Essays About Mental Health

My Mental Health Drastically Improved When I Stopped Posting on Social Media

Coming to Terms With My Misguided Job Snobbery

When MeToo Meets I Do

The Place Where I Bury My Bats

Life After Caregiving

Retail Anxiety: The Necklace I Had to Have

A Teacher's Secret Life

The Most Popular Personal Essays of 2023