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Forced Change: Could A COVID-19 Layoff Be Exactly What You Need?
I Was In Love With A Narcissist: How I Left His Harem and Rediscovered Myself
Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
Gay Pride, Straight Sex and Bloody Marys (Book Excerpt)
The Love Riddle
Journaling From my Past
True Living: Saying Goodbye to Denial
Pain as Purpose? Get outta here.
Power Strip: An Adult Extertainer’s Backstory
Lost, Found, London
Living with Depression: Why I No Longer Feel Shame
A Valentine’s for Singles (You Are Victorious)
On the corner of Lessons and Message (poem)
Who are you? (No, really)
I used to be hot: an ex-stripper appreciates her body (then and now).
The Sociopath and Me: A Love Story
The Marriage of Love: A Song For Everyone
Face. Value.
Right Now.
Review of Tonya Kay’s Pinup Pole Show (From a Retired Pole Gal)
An open letter to anyone who reads me
Review: ‘Bare’ Took Me There
Top Ten
1 ~ 5
Like a Stone: A 90s Party Girl’s Thoughts On Chris Cornell
Shit just got real: my brain aneurysm
It’s a Jungle Down There
Popular Chaos: How Smartphones affect us
The Incomparable Dr. Bigelow
6 ~ 10
More than a feeling
A lesson in Weird
Like a Record, Baby.
Letting go, holding on
Pants on Fire
Stripper Stuff
Part One
Last song: true story from my stripper days (and a poem that was born)
It’s a Jungle Down There
Stripper Scoop: Top five questions answered
The truth about me and porn
Cabaret
Music and Chair Shows: Reflections of a retired stripper
Strippers: Five Truths
So, your name really isn’t Chardonnay?
Happiness For Sale?
Face. Value.
I used to be a rock star
Review of Tonya Kay’s Pinup Pole Show (From a Retired Pole Gal)
Skin Deep: What made me start stripping at 19
Only in a strip club…
Part Two
Isn’t it Ironic? (from Waikiki, post 1)
Stage Pillows (from Waikiki post 2)
Back to the Clubs (from Waikiki, post 3)
Mea Culpa: Confessions of a Baby Sister
Does your mother know: confessions of a stripper
From bullies to burlesque
Part Three
What’s YOUR stripper name?
Does your mother know: confessions of a stripper
Dancer’s Reunion
Show and tell
So this ex-stripper, and a gay dude walk in to a bar…
Valentina: When Old Meets New
Fascination St.
Head
Part One
Living with Depression: Why I No Longer Feel Shame
And, Scene: Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Sociopath and Me: A Love Story
I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me
State of Mind
Let go or hang on? Your call, your rules.
Sine Metu – Addendum
Instinct
Emotional Roulette
Boredom or Bedlam: Are You An Emotional Cutter?
Part Two
A Narcissist’s Harem: Are you in one?
Fantasy vs. Reality: Where do you live?
Fat. Chance.
Sine Metu (Without Fear)
All one
The Blind Leading the Mind
Crazy is the new black
Spine
Part One
You’re not a Pussy
It gets better
Worth
Jellyfish
What she said
Compared to what?
Objects may seem larger
Part Two
Photoshop and Filters: Evil or Blessing?
21
I’ll see your “no”, and raise you…
Stepford Lives
Don’t believe the bad stuff
Part Three
Giving yourself permission
Worth
Because we are worth it
Universe, you little bitch
A lesson in Weird
Heart
Part One
Sticks and Stones: do others’ opinions of you effect your own?
Normal
And, Scene: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Boxes
Unfolding as it should be
Familiar
Soon
More than a feeling
Part Two
Knots
Right Now.
Lost, Found, London.
Breakups: 5 ways to keep your sanity (and help heal your heart)
Can you tell?
Funny Bone
It’s a Jungle Down There
Faking it
An open letter to Botox
Walk of Shame
Breast Intentions
80’s Flashback Café
*Let’s just consider it water under my vagina
Addiction
Part One
A safe kind of high: My unexpected relapse
Take two pills and detox in the morning
Addiction: simple and complicated
Guts
High. School.
Part Two
At the end of the day, who’s really full of it?
“Not my kid”
Thanks Andrew
Don’t panic: how I survived an attack without drugs
“Why is Addiction Still Considered a Personal Weakness?” by Michael Moritz
Personal Reviews
Review of Tonya Kay’s Pinup Pole Show (From a Retired Pole Gal)
Review: ‘Bare’ Took Me There
Guts
Interviews
Kirsty TV
National Association of Memoir Writers
Renegade Spotlight
Pubs
Salon
Maid of Dishonor
Madonna, my partner in aging
SMITH Magazine
Voluntary Termination
Women on the Fence
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