Designs I Like

My Mental Health Designs

May 2, 2026

May is #MentalHealthMonth I’ve been pretty open about my current (and long-term) mental health challenges. Also quite vocal about the struggle of being an independent creative surviving late-stage consumption capitalism with some level of personal integrity. Those are combined with the ‘dark humour’ I learned [read more]

Family, Identity

An Update

March 18, 2026

The latest information on our efforts to move (back) to Canada. We’ve received an update from the Canadian government indicating (although not promising) my husband’s application to become a legal Permanent Resident of Canada (with my sponsorship) is moving faster than expected. As in, 5 [read more]

Family, Identity

An Update On My Memoir

February 15, 2026

Are you thinking “I didn’t know he’s writing his memoir!“? That’s OK, so was I when a friend asked me for ‘the latest update’. My reply was that there are no immediate plans for one; which is true enough. But the question rattled through my [read more]

Family, Identity

The Price of Freedom

November 27, 2025

Regular readers and visitors to my various social media accounts (these days I’m primarily on Insta) know that my husband and I are working to move to Canada. As I’m a Canadian (actually, dual) citizen I can sponsor his application for Permanent Resident status up [read more]

Family, Identity

All Hallows Eve

October 28, 2025

Hallowe’en is well-known (at least in my world) as a Big GAY Holiday that has all the celebration of modern gay pride parties without the direct connection to our painful history. That’s not meant as a criticism; there’s plenty of evidence that celebration (laughter and [read more]

Family, Identity

Prenatal Trauma

July 31, 2025

This post is part of my demystifying and de-shaming what Mental Health struggles might look like. As always, details that might reveal as yet untold stories of other living people are vague or vanished; this is only my story. There are a few posts here [read more]