resilience
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Casa del Phoenix
The apartment was a clean slate… a blank page on which to write a new life. My interest in design predated this turbulent chapter of my life. Even while living in her house, I had begun carving out a small… Continue reading
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The Ground Beneath
I arrived beneath grey skies and the oppressively brutal cold of a New England February, outwardly confident, but inside torn apart by trauma, shame and doubt. My hands intermittently shook, not from the cold, but as an outward reflection of… Continue reading
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Heavy Baggage
I have been thinking further about my previous piece, The Skip in the Groove. In that essay, I wrote about how certain triggers can bring one back into the trauma that you think you have been coming to terms with.… Continue reading
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Where Healing Begins
When I wrote the first post on this blog, it was on the occasion of my tenth wedding anniversary. It was a remarkably difficult day. I wrestled with memories of that day, the five years that had preceded it, and… Continue reading
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