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December 26, 2016December 28, 2016 J, True Stories 4 Comments faithmemoirresilience

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    She'd shake me awake in the dark. Not bothering to shower, I'd twist my hair into a bun and follow her to the car. The women in my mother's family all worked in some kind of nursing capacity. They also share a painful legacy of miscarriages. My initial aversion to bodily fluids and human…Read more More

December 4, 2016 True Stories 5 Comments martha's vineyardmemoirrecovery

Tidings

  Perception, access, resources and ability largely determine the way we approach accountability, healing and change. Initially when my mother and stepfather told us we were moving to a 20 mile long floating land mass in the middle of a giant puddle known as the Atlantic, we wailed in protest. I was tired of unpacking…Read more Tidings

October 25, 2016October 7, 2017 Anorexia, True Stories, Uncategorized 12 Comments Anorexiamemoirrecovery

Shutter

We broke into pieces slowly, like an uncovered cake drying out for weeks on a counter. I'd say the crumbling began after he'd admitted to starting the fire in our apartment. It took a while to accept it as truth given the erosion of safety I'd been avoiding most of my adult life. I'd been brave enough to examine…Read more Shutter

October 15, 2016November 9, 2016 Anorexia, J, True Stories 6 Comments addictionAnorexiamemoir

The Weight

He was never tasked with picking us up from anywhere and truthfully I don't remember if on this occasion, we were coming or going. What I do recall was, he couldn't see the road. Katie and Reid were oblivious in the back seat of the Isuzu looking small, bright and cute. Katie was wearing a…Read more The Weight

October 2, 2016October 7, 2017 J, Shrink Rap, True Stories, Uncategorized 8 Comments lovememoirpoetry

Love is.

  Yesterday I bumped into some old writing; several thousand words chronicling the death of a decade which now looks like a worn out towel in my memory. It made me question love; why we need it, how to go about it, what it's for, why bother the risks. Last night I dreamt about an…Read more Love is.

September 18, 2016February 2, 2017 J, Shrink Rap 7 Comments Anorexiafaithmemoir

W.A.I.T

When the sun's in your eyes sometimes you're blinded, so it'd make sense to wait until your sight returns before doing anything. In the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer his mentor says "don't move until you see it". He was teaching him to see each match in its entirety before making a move as part of…Read more W.A.I.T

April 17, 2016November 4, 2016 J, Shrink Rap, True Stories 2 Comments memoirpovertyresilience

The Perfect Storm

To get out of the projects, my parents moved us into a partially condemned apartment building with faulty electricity and no running hot water. It was a relief and discomfort at the same time; you a lose a network, a sense of rank and familiarity when you go someplace new. I could anticipate the violence…Read more The Perfect Storm

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