13 GOING ON 33

When I was 13, I lived my life feeling afraid, ashamed, and abandoned by the world. I was feeling afraid that no one would like my all around “other”-ness. I was feeling ashamed because I received a constant barrage of messages telling me that everything about me was wrong. I was feeling abandoned by the

MY INNER CHILD WAS CONCEIVED IN LOCKDOWN, & HIS NAME IS BOBBY BARNES

During the 2020 lockdown, I was forced to really be with myself. After much introspection and reflection, I got in touch with my inner child again. The light, the joy, and ultimately the creativity. Much of which I lost somewhere around 2017. I wrote a piece about the depression I was experiencing in 2017-2019 called,

NEXT INSTALLMENT

This is the next installment of “Becoming Bobby”.