When a person touches us and it feels wrong, IT IS. 100% unacceptable– to be touched in ways that feel yucky, unwanted, unwholesome. IT happening, is the beginning. After the moment passes, the wreckage persists- governing all that will follow. My downward…
Dear Mom, I have confidence that you will find countless, possibly un or subconscious ways to reject me, put me in my place before you are finished with me. I find your…
December 26,2016 Dear Self, Re: the Matter of Your Female Progenitor and Sibling: Enjoy the esteem of knowing, you have shown up and have given more than most can understand.…
Santa surprised us by delivering a day early. Boys received what must surely complete our collection of all the latest nerf artillery. The Mega-Mastadon unloads a full round of 24 sausage sized…
In between wrapping gifts and singing along to Country Christmas, I am taken down by the grief of my sister and my mother, the reality of how they smash and grab–…