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Coura Devka
June 15, 2012 Coming home from a meeting at the airport I decide on a whim I will take the scenic route and stop at the farm in Varina. I drive with little else on my mind but wonder of … Continue reading
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The Space Between
We do it until we can’t do it anymore. Each of us has an internal barometer as to what we can and will take, and what and when we refuse to take anymore. It isn’t a snap decision, it’s a … Continue reading
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Surrender
He asks, boldly, when no one has dared, what did it feel like? This virtual stranger calls out my experience, wants to know if it was painful, but does not fully understand his question evokes an emotional layer that has … Continue reading
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Portrait of Domestic Violence
Artist Susan Singer paints women. As women. As themselves. Hurt, human, scarred, broken, triumphant, Beyond Barbie. As part of my own healing, I commissioned Susan last summer to paint my portrait, nude, showing the residual scars from the shooting and … Continue reading
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The Performance
At Susan Singer’s Beyond Barbie, presented by the Chesterfield County Domestic and Sexual Violence Resource Center and Domestic Violence Task Force, I read excerpts from my blog along with other writers, dancers, poets and musicians in a celebration of the … Continue reading
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Shameless Survivors 