Articles & Essays

I write about the topics I was raised to not talk about for national magazines and websites.

Don’t tell my grandmother.

Almost immediately after this essay was published in Salon, people began to contact me with similar stories, many wondering what advice I could give. I didn’t know much at the time, but the steady drum beat of inquiries led me to research and write my book, Everything is Going to be OK.

EssaysAshley WombleJuly 28, 2010Homelessness, Sch, Ja

Gimme Shelter

Published in an online magazine The Morning News in 2009, the first essay I wrote about my brother’s experience with schizophrenia is the only one he would ever read.

EssaysAshley WombleAugust 3, 2009Schizophrenia, Jay, Mental Illness