Guest Posts, memories, Trauma
Beyond The Haunting
I’m not the same kind of midwife my aunties were. But I’ve learned how to birth certain things. How to take hurt and transmute it into something different.
August 17, 2021Latest Posts
On Being Human.-
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Guest Posts, parenting, parents
Driving With Mom
The plan was to take her to a restaurant for dinner and then borrow her car to drive to the summer cottage where the backdrop is stuffed in a trunk in her bedroom. But I can’t leave her this way.
August 15, 2021 -
Family, Guest Posts, memories
Four Shots: Looking for Signs of a Life
The final shot you scanned that day shows a tall glass lamp with a dark lampshade crowned by a belt of white ribbon. The lamp offers zero illumination.
August 14, 2021 -
Fiction, Fiction Fridays, Friendship, Guest Posts
Yoga Pants
The moms in the clique were into vacationing in the same places. Not necessarily together, but they chose the same places. I overheard them talk about this at pickup.
August 13, 2021 -
Guest Posts, pandemic, Relationships
Building Mom A Bridge: How To Cross Over Seas and Pandemics
So aside from sending my mom pizza dinners, Amazon gifts, and Facetiming regularly, I needed a more meaningful way to reach her. What about writing together? I thought.
August 12, 2021 -
Guest Posts
The Hunt For Happiness
Experts in the mental health field emphasize that the solution to despair can be found in several areas but that social connections and a sense of purpose are key.
August 11, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Mental Health
Frostbite
By August, I can already tell this winter will be far too long. The sky itself is as hollow as the space in my chest.
August 10, 2021 -
Abuse, Guest Posts, healing
What I Didn’t Know
I didn’t know that I should feel good in my home. I didn’t know that I wasn’t mentally ill. I didn’t know that I wasn’t ugly.
August 9, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Relationships
When Spicing Things Up Cools Everything Down
I let him make a list. I could always use more turmeric and cardamom, I reasoned. “But no cinnamon. I’m the one person on earth who does not like cinnamon.”
August 8, 2021 -
Guest Posts
On The Cusp
Although most people said he looked like Steve, he reminded me of me, personality-wise. Responsible, steady, high-achieving but modest.
August 7, 2021 -
Guest Posts, travel
The Gravity of Human Life
Sometimes when I couldn’t sleep at night, I’d imagine I was plunging into a clear blue lagoon, letting the water relieve me of gravity’s pull, relieve me of the pull of human life.
August 4, 2021 -
Guest Posts, memories, Trauma
My Body Remembers What I Don’t
I look down into my lap then I look at her, smile. “But are you glad you had me?”
August 3, 2021
I don’t know that this is not a question all children ask. -
Guest Posts, pandemic, parenting
A New Kind of Wild
We’ve been in virtual schooling for about two weeks now. The novelty, like my positivity, is wearing off.
August 2, 2021 -
Converse-Station, Guest Posts, writing
The Converse-Station: Sari Fordham Interviews Gina Troisi
How does one launch one’s book during a pandemic? A group of us had the same question and we decided to join forces and ask it together.
August 1, 2021
