2023 With the cold settling into my bones, I was afraid that night. My brain was running fast. One of the things I’ve noticed about...

In that time as I assiduously but haphazardly engaged in moving the car to avoid the Repo Man, I also was heavily drugged and already by...

1. Drop Off They left me in the empty living room in the empty house. Watery October light on the bare wood floors. The room echoey as...

13. During my second sojourn in the bin I knew already how to be. I knew to go to all the meetings and participate in the activities....

Back to the empty house. That’s what made me begin writing this. The living room looking down over the street or neat little houses. ...

11. A year before I really asked for a divorce I asked for a divorce for the first time. A practice run that ended in tears and begging....

I dug ponds. He hid bills. I asked the child who was still considered to be a son about what he thought his parents should do if they...

I used to rent out the garage in those last years of the marriage. And the basement was an apartment that also was rented. We didn’t...

For three years after my life collapsed I had no dreams. I didn't even notice that they were gone until they started to return. Lately...

Of course if you set up your life in such a way that it's precarious and don't safeguard yourself then one little thing can do a lot of...