KIRK HOLLAND

Since I came out three years ago, I've been consuming a ton of entertainment of all sorts in the LGBTQ+ category. Books, movies, TV...

Confession: I was reading a book on the bus to school this morning and the entire time I had to put a stop to one of two narratives in my...

I've recently taken to reading quite a bit of Young Adult fiction in the last year for what I would assume are obvious reasons. I don't...

Hoooo-boy! Spring is just around the corner in good old Shanghai. Here's a quirky little perception of mine after living here in Shanghai...

I surpassed 10,000 levels on Gardenscapes. God, help me. The movie Clueless is still one of my absolute favorites and the Super Bowl ad...

"Hey, I went Saturday night and saw that movie you suggested." "Oh, yeah? Wasn't it great?" "Meh..." "Wait. What do you mean, 'meh'?" "I...

"You don't have anything interesting to say. You're not poignant. Nothing you have to say is anything new nor anything anyone wants to...

Tragedy struck a month ago. As I mentioned in my last blog post, I'd recently started exploring a new story about a gay teenage guy,...

Remember that hilarious meme that made its way around which said something to the effect of, "2022 sounds ominously like 2020 too?" Oh so...

It's that time of the year again. Auditions, rehearsals, designs, theatre class, and self. As a theatre teacher, a job I love, my...

I have the absolute best of intentions to write, to progress, to connect, to be present. I sit down at a desk to work, a table to write,...

I've come to realize that, like a great many people, I struggle with depression. I don't know what I thought it was for so many years. I...

As most people close to me know by now, I came out a little over a year ago. That statement right there has a world of history and...

Giant sand dunes, sprawling grasslands, enormous tree covered rock formations jutting open from flat plains, an old middle eastern city...

I'm an author. Like, officially, I'm a published author. ***Insert mind-blown emoji here*** I was in Portland, Oregon, several summers...

If you've been watching my Instagram feed or Facebook posts, you may be getting an idea of who these Six individuals are. I've given...

I'm a bit of a news whore. I love watching it. First thing in the morning, I make my coffee, park my butt on the sofa, and attend my...

My first summer job was at a B.Dalton Bookseller at Hulen Mall in Fort Worth, Texas. I was fifteen and had landed the job of my dreams at...

I stood on a cliff in the Philippines about nine meters (or about thirty feet for my States peeps) above a beautiful blue pool fed by...

I've had this close circle of friends for several years now. We would get together on random afternoons and share a cup of coffee,...