Category: Emotional Abuse
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When Past and Present Meet
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I had a vague sense of uneasiness when I took my dog, Goldie for a walk this morning. I get this feeling quite often. I wanted to take a deep breath and make this feeling go away, but it never does by just doing that. If I pay attention, there…
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Monster
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This piece is about how I felt as a child, and how I felt about her as I began to see the full scope of her abuse of me. Now, I see her as someone who was emotionally unbalanced, and just a sad woman, wasted by her own anger. She…
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Tricycle Marathon
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Riding bikes with my sisters. Rainy day, indoor tricycle marathon. Around and around, how fast can we go? Through the kitchen. Multicolored dots on a blue-gray background, the linoleum gives the illusion of speed. Around the corner, often nicking the white trim of the doorway, and into the small utility…