Dire and damning. That’s what authority sounds like to me–and it gives me comfort.
Tag: ptsd
My best day of 2016.
Wednesday, August 24. It was early morning, likely before 9:00 a.m. I rode my new Trek bicycle west along Lower Road in Brewster, a mid-Cape Cod town in Massachusetts. Both the recently re-paved road and my month-old bicycle were smooth: no cratered surfaces and no grinding gears. I guided my bike with my left hand […]
Letter to the editor.
I received the text from my father-in-law around midday. “I see you got published in the NYT.” I was but had not told anyone. The New York Times published my letter to the editor in the print and online versions of today’s paper. I wrote in response to a Saturday, January 23 article on Post […]
Talk about the don’t-go-there topics.
Thank you to Salon.com for publishing It’s Like This, my most recent essay. Please share as appropriate. Breaking the silence around PTSD and stillbirth helps the healing process.