This month’s theme is “birthdays”, and the carnival just keeps on growing. Looks like yet another large collection of posts!
Head over to Issue Knitting and check for yourself! It should give us plenty to read for the weekend.
Over the last couple of weeks, both my wife and I have found ourselves in normal, everday conversations where we’ve had to explain to someone that I am a survivor of child abuse. Now, one, that’s somewhat odd, there are people I’ve worked with and known for years where that has simply never come up…
I’ve been reading blogs written by survivors for quite awhile now and one of the things that has always struck me, when compared to my own blogging, are the detailed descriptions of the abuse, and certain events from their childhood. It’s not that I don’t want to be that open with my readers here, the…
Pin The other day, my friend Hannah, who is a runner in the very real sense, (she’s run the Boston Marathon, as opposed to the “runner” I am, where I run out for pizza.) posted something to her Instagram account about her recovery from an ankle injury that I thought was beautiful: Injury continues to teach…
Driving home Friday night, I was scanning through the radio dials, as I’m wont to do during a 3600 miles drive over 8 days, and found a talk show where the host was talking about girls who had been raped and whether or not they were to be considered “damaged goods” by prospective boyfriends or…
My wife yesterday decided to be generous and get me a gift certificate for a massage, in the hopes that maybe trying something like that would help me with the headaches I have to deal with from time to time. Of course, given the issues I sometimes have with being touched by males, as a…
Is any one else troubled by the idea that what happened in the Iraqi prisons is, rightfully, condemned far and wide as a human right’s abuse, while prison rape in our country is widespread and completely accepted, even joked about?
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