Voices on Addiction: Motherless in Albertsons
I am sick with grief, triggered by my mother’s death, in turn triggered by Chardonnay.
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Join NOW!I am sick with grief, triggered by my mother’s death, in turn triggered by Chardonnay.
...moreNneka M. Okona discusses her new book, SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF.
...moreTo have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
...moreJocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
...moreMai Der Vang discusses her new poetry collection, YELLOW RAIN.
...moreIs he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
...moreApples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
...moreJoy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
...moreThe frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
...moreSpeak, Okinawa is masterful at describing the internal dissonance that mixed race children can feel.
...moreMichael Prior discusses his new collection of poetry, BURNING PROVENCE.
...moreGabriela Garcia discusses her debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT.
...moreThe toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
...moreGeorgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
...moreJulia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
...moreLearning to read a landscape can reveal a deep history.
...moreVivian Gibson discusses her debut memoir, THE LAST CHILDREN OF MILL CREEK.
...moreThis book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
...moreIt doesn’t feel good, does it? I didn’t see it coming either.
...moreThe survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
...moreMorgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
...moreEmpathy and forgiveness must begin with understanding.
...moreMaisy Card discusses her debut novel, THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY.
...moreI’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
...moreSarah M. Broom discusses her debut memoir, THE YELLOW HOUSE.
...moreThank God music has wings and it can fly wherever, even countries we can’t reach.
...moreAmy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
...moreWhat you cannot put into words cannot become a lie.
...more[T]he questions pile up, never to be answered.
...moreThe first thing my parents bought when they earned money in America was a giant bag of almonds as a talisman for success.
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