ABOUT THE CONTENT

My hope is to find an audience interested in normalizing the topics of loss, shame, grief, trauma and healing and who are also up for some warped humor and hard earned insights along the way.   

At its core, this work is about having a body and being alive on this planet and just trying to get through all the physical and psycho-social struggles that life demands. Specifically, it’s about how this guy (points thumbs at self) has pursued healing and sanity after a traumatizing miscarriage and the subsequent loss of a partnership and my fertility — with no living children to show for it. Spoiler alert, I’m okay now.

I’ve always been compelled to give voice to common experiences that folks typically don’t want to talk about – probably because I experienced things nobody wanted to talk about: I had colitis (a gross bowel disease) when I was a kid and I suffered a bunch of miscarriages as an adult. 

But I still don’t understood why folks are so private about these common and often stigmatized "indignities.”  Everybody poops and sooo many women experience natal loss, and personally, I’d rather share and normalize talking about it all instead of feeling isolated and ashamed. 

ABOUT THE FORMAT

I will publish essays in their written form and provide an audio/podcast version for those who prefer to listen.  

As a subscriber you will receive email updates when I publish new content and you can peruse the archives on the website at any time.   

For now all content is free, but paid subscriptions are certainly appreciated if you are inclined to support this writer’s pursuit of earning income from her creative labors.

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Essays about confronting and moving on from loss, grief and shame. Sometimes it's about miscarriages and chronic illness, sometimes home and career.

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Bereaved mother and funny lady Born Tembagapura, Indonesia Child of Madrid, Cairo, PHX, LA, OAK and PDX Writes non-fiction, plays and screenplays MOTH Grand Slammer