A calm has settled over me lately. This is not to say that I do not feel anxious at times, nor am without restlessness or urges to do more. Those moments and experiences are mostly a result of the legacy of narcissistic abuse and trauma (and who knows how much influence comes from culture). I […]
It was a along-ago friend, who years ago told me of his efforts to write letters to his very young son, that made me think about writing love letters to my daughter. Like moving beyond a “baby book,” or carrying on past the cutesy infant and toddler years, the point was to write letters to […]
(Interestingly, I wrote this piece pre-pandemic, planning on submitting it to a travel site on which I have previously been published. But then I went off the grid for a bit, writing personally, privately, taking a writing hiatus. Then the pandemic happened. Almost a year later, I opened this up, reread it, and was surprised […]
