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To My Mom,
Thank you for doing this work while there is still time for the children to inherit something different. I know it costs you. There are people who would welcome your silence back with open arms. You could have their approval by evening if you would only say you had exaggerated, misunderstood, forgiven and forgotten. Thank…
Fantasy Island – Do You Pretend?
Why is it that my mind wanders away from reality so quickly? They call it dissociation but if I could live in an altered state, none of my story would be true. And, if it were true, I’d minimize it. Change the destruction of its path. I would temper it to the point where it…
What We Leave Our Children
The women in my family could make a meal from almost nothing. A bone. An onion. Whatever the men had left. They could also make a childhood disappear beneath a clean tablecloth. I learned from them. I washed the good plates. I carried the terrible things carefully so nobody would hear them touch. When I…
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