An Act of Love
An Act of Love. There are many, too many, people I know right now who are trying to navigate unhealthy…
Category: DA
Intercession
I cannot stop the ringing in my right ear. A low decibel tinny hum, like a chanting bowl far off…
Begin Again
It took me ten years, six months, and seven days to divorce the man I married at age thirty and…
CV19: A Mask
I’ve found an unintended upside to wearing a mask in public. I do not feel compelled or pressured to smile.…
Violated
Violated Too pretty they’ll want to steal your beauty. Ugly enough they think they’re doing you a…
CV19: The Yelling Man
We walked the aisles in our masks, breathing warm air that fogs our glasses. No contact, swerving deference to all…
A History of Bad Holidays
Here we go, holiday time and all the joys and sorrows that go with it. We are far away from…
PTSD, an Explanation
First, the things I’m writing about are not necessarily happening now. I have more than ten years of work, hundreds…
A Day with PTSD
You wake up at 4AM, jolted by a sound, brain racing from the nightmare, like thread unraveling from a spinning…
The Leaving
As difficult as it is to talk about the pain and terror that happens in abusive relationships, it is even…
October Is Fraught
October is fraught with awareness campaigns that hit me where it hurts the most: Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Purple ribbons.…
A Lie of Domestic Abuse
“He’s only a danger to you.” No. People who are bullying, stalking, threatening, hitting, manipulating, gaslighting, and controlling are not…