The opening paragraph of my upcoming novel includes a sentence that fell from my fingers one firey afternoon. I’d been writing on a tear and words were pouring out of me uncensored. I wrote, “One …
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Trauma: a deeply distressing experience or injury. Religious Trauma: Deeply distressing damage caused by authoritarian and dogmatic indoctrination that results in terror, helplessness, or …
January's energy is clean, decluttered, and empty. There's a comforting void in the absence of excess. I think the quietest hour of the year comes in winter, even when there is no snow. We sleep. …
Overwhelm was hard to cop to. I wanted to say, "I've got it," and be believed. Trusted. I didn't want to admit that I was unhappy. That I felt mismanaged and that I was in turn, mismanaging. That I …
I've been a mother of many home educated children, an entrepreneur with multiple hustles simultaneously running, and an employee with an omnipresent side dream. All of these incarnations came with …
So many Easters. There's the western Easter of my protestant childhood, full of passion plays and easter lilies, new dresses and ham dinners. There's the eastern Easter of my adulthood, a midnight …
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