A Woman Named Sophie

 As I start writing this, it's Friday August 14, 2026.  (Here's the part where I insert the cliche "where has the summer gone? ...

 I received an email late last night from someone I don't know (that wasn't a Nigerian prince, a man working an oil platform, or hig...

As I write this, it's mid September.  Long time readers know that I hate September more than Green Day does.  I was thrown out from my...

The other day marked five years since returning to State College for my PhD.  I wrote about it HERE and HERE , if you care.  For five years...

I mention occasionally that I work for the campus LGBTQ Center here at Penn State.  PSU is still between Maymester and the start of Summer s...

Ten years ago today, March 25, 2014, (well really around 11 PM the night before), I declared to the world that I am Sophie.  I began living ...

I haven't written anything here in a bit.  All the usual reasons: depression, depression, and laziness.  Depression includes a huge smac...

 It was another life: A lifetime ago.   It was April 1987.  I was twenty. My parents drove up to State College on a Thursday to my apartment...