Exciting life update!

I don’t write these often but I wanted to write a little bit about what’s going on in my life right now. A few months ago, I lamented my inability to move back to New England, especially with how expensive the housing market has become lately.

It’s essentially the worst time, particularly in recent memory, to move across the country, and here I am doing it anyway.

I haven’t been happy in DC since the pandemic started. I moved here to take an amazing job opportunity, essentially becoming the first ever openly trans Capitol Hill reporter in US history. But less than a year later, I lost my job. Eventually the publication got rid of all of its reporters, shortly after we formed a union.

I’ve been freelancing since then. This was tolerable before the pandemic. I was travelling to see my kids often, along with travelling for speaking engagements and story assignments. Work was coming in regularly. And then the pandemic hit, and all of that stopped.

Since early 2020, I’ve only seen my kids a handful of times. They live in New England, and my ex and I haven’t considered public transportation to be safe for the kids, and travel until midway through last year wasn’t safe at all.

I’ve been suffering from serious depression (and the serious overeating that I do to deal with depression) since then. But the good news is, I’m finally escaping it all in mid-August.

I found a cute little place in Western Massachusetts, close to wear I went to college. I’m looking forward to regularly attending UMass sporting events again. I’m looking forward to seeing my kids often again.

I’m also starting a couple new writing gigs, in addition to my work here on Medium and with MSNBC. I can’t quite say what it is, but I’ll be writing a piece every other week for two different publications on an alternating basis. It’s all very exciting and I can’t wait to close the page on the DC chapter of my life and move on to my return to Western Mass.