A bur­geon­ing writer and jour­nal­ist, I am cur­rently report­ing for the Ozarks Sen­tinel news­pa­per. I wanted to cre­ate a place to talk about the pink ele­phants trum­pet­ing in rooms across the globe. As a for­mer psychology/sociology/anthropology stu­dent, I always have been and con­tinue to be inter­ested in rela­tional issues, espe­cially the ones that are uncom­fort­able for peo­ple to talk about.

Every com­mu­nity has things that are tear­ing it apart from the inside out, and these are the most dif­fi­cult prob­lems to solve. Regional and national trends are always a melt­ing pot of the prob­lems hap­pen­ing on an indi­vid­ual level, much like a virus has to infect mil­lions of indi­vid­ual cells before a per­son dis­plays symp­toms rec­og­niz­able out­side the body.

My hope is to edu­cate peo­ple about how such sit­u­a­tions evolve, open a dia­logue about things that are some­times con­sid­ered taboo to dis­cuss, and show peo­ple that you can talk about dif­fi­cult things with­out being deroga­tory or unnec­es­sar­ily graphic.