You can not enter through my front door. If I wanted to leave through that door, I would have to jump. No, really, it’s a physical fact. Somehow that brings me comfort, safety. We ripped out our ragged porch and are in the process of building a new one. That front door kept people away. […]
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Pregnancy and Mental Health
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Seventeen years ago I gave birth to a beautiful son. It was a decision wrought with what if’s and how to’s. Just like anyone else’s pregnancy would be. I was high risk for a number of reasons, part of them medical, part of them mental. It was a question of whether I would be able […]
Keeping Silent
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I’m trying very hard to keep my mouth, or my pen, shut. My fingers type away in a desire to talk and I find my brain fighting which most certainly would be a betrayal. Not just a betrayal to others but a betrayal to me. Do I open up and risk the backlash, or do […]
Social Isolation
“You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way” Jennifer J. Freeman I have been falling backward. Almost all of the work I have done to think positive, to work past the sadness, has diminished. I have been immobile. Part of it is because of my illness. The other part […]