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Tag Archives: domestic violence
Being Present
We have been driving a few hours and as we near our destination I look in the rear view mirror and see my daughter. Her eyes are big and round, but there is a noticeable distant sadness in them. She sees … Continue reading
The Awakening
And you can’t fight the tears that ain’t coming, or the moment of truth in your lies, when everything feels like the movies, yeah you bleed just to know you’re alive.’ John Rzeznik When I meet victims I observe how … Continue reading
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Shall We Dance
My son is winding down his first year of Cotillion, a Richmond tradition where middle-schoolers learn social graces and manners through ballroom dance. It is an age of innocence as the boys and girls, for most their first formal social … Continue reading
Writing
I have begun, finally, the process of writing my own story, the final story, for the book. I have written and shared pieces of the journey beyond the shooting in this blog. As I sit to write I am confronted … Continue reading
On loneliness
Loneliness was a huge underlying theme in my marriage. Framed by hopelessness, and the withdrawal of emotional intimacy out of necessity to survive, it was a constant dull ache of existence from which there seemed, like the rest of the … Continue reading
Shameless Survivors 