Voices on Addiction: Keep It Simple, Sweetheart
Finding joy in the now, even as death and difficulty mark the days, is possible, a choice, and a practice.
...moreFinding joy in the now, even as death and difficulty mark the days, is possible, a choice, and a practice.
...more“Writing in this way allows me to put order in this disordered world.”
...more“Was it vodka?” Mama said. Her voice had cracks in it. Why ask? She knew.
...moreTelevision babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
...moreIt hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
...moreThere is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
...moreErica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
...moreFind and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
...moreBut we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
...more“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
...moreI trust, nowadays. I have to keep at it
...moreJenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreAs recovering addicts, we must love ourselves back to the source, love our shameful bits and decimations and not just our reconciliations and resurrections.
...moreMichelle Tea discusses her forthcoming collection, Against Memoir, out tomorrow from Amethyst Editions/The Feminist Press.
...moreLeslie Jamison discusses The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, understanding that every text is incomplete, and whether motherhood has changed her writing.
...moreMy gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
...moreThe word rehab is short for rehabilitate, which means to restore to a former capacity. Like houses, I remember thinking. Demo the kitchen. Tear down the walls.
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