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Paralyzed By Fear – Part Five – Dressing Up

Posted by Steven Russell 
I hate dressing up. Those who get to know me know that the less I wear the better. It’s been that way as far back as I can remember. In this picture, I was five. The look on my face isn’t only from the sun in my eyes. Perhaps I hated ...

Paralyzed By Fear – Part Four - Sports

Posted by Steven Russell 
I hate sports. I’ve always hated sports. Well, okay, I can downgrade that to I never developed an appreciation of sports. I don’t remember any time in my life when I enjoyed tossing a ball around. I never learned how to catch a ball or ...

Paralyzed By Fear - Part Three - Performing

Posted by Steven Russell 
In a recent post I wrote about my early developing fears of performing at piano recitals when I was young. Soon after that post I performed in a concert with a friend. I decided to use the event to study my fear, and to attempt to overcome it, at ...

Is This Fair? Of course it's not!

Posted by Cousin Butchie 
Dear Cousin Butchie, I am writing to you because I am 15+ years old and need the advice of someone like you who is gay and close to my age. My parents know that I am gay, but we've never had a big discussion about it. It's kind of like the ...