I have broken the family contract. My mother enforced it: we (mother and three daughters) were never to acknowledge or object to my...

I keep waiting to be tried for my crimes against humanity. What crimes, you might ask? (I ask myself as well, in constant evaluation of...

If you have two hours available for some serious viewing, I highly recommend Jane Campion’s new masterpiece, “Power of the Dog.” While it...

Even before I confronted death at age 15, I had tastes, desires, and a temperament that did not fit. I danced, and sang, and immersed...

I have told my story, read and reread it, edited and proofed it, polished and published it. So goodbye to all that. I slam the door on...

The film, Promising Young Woman, by Emerald Fennell, gives all traumatized people, particularly women, an incredible gift: it does the...

Every moment you allow them to occupy you, you are yielding, you are giving them a victory. I am a survivor only of personal history, of...

It would have helped if a single person had come forward to defend me or at least validate my perceptions of reality. Instead I had the...

If my parents had left bruises, I would, even as a 10-year-old, have found my way to the Auburn Police Station and testified against...

The truth: some of us don’t survive. When I consider what I have suffered at the hands of the ignorant, the brutal, or the narcissistic,...