Book Review: Big Summer
Drue Cavanaugh is steeped in white privilege. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner rips away that facade and exposes the empty, painful loneliness within: I’d chased after [Drue], and she’d chased after […]
Tag Archives: emotional abuse
Book Review: Hungry
Today is the 15th anniversary of my abusive, tyrannical father’s death. I’ve always loved the irony that I was liberated on Bastille Day! It has taken me six years to […]
Movie Review: Rocketman
Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman “I’m Still Standing” is the anthem for many abusive survivors. Until I watched Rocketman this afternoon, I didn’t know that the lyric, “Looking like […]
Book Review: The Power of Love
The power of love was palpable at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: “It becomes the way you live and not just a thing you do. . […]
Book Review: Queen Bee
Queen Bee is Dorothea Benton Frank’s 20th novel and a departure from her typical Sullivan’s Island beach books. The characters are more quirky and eccentric. Her zingers are hysterical. Ms. […]
Book Review: The Apology
“I’m sorry” are words too many survivors will sadly never hear. I never heard them. Ever. Narcissists don’t apologize. They project their guilt onto their prey. I’ve often contemplated writing […]
Are You Pro-Life?
I’m pro-life. This is why I am stridently pro-choice. As most of y’all know, I am an unwanted child. The Declaration of Independence might have been written on my family’s […]
Book Review: The Wife
“Will you be my wife?” No, this isn’t a marriage proposal. It is a question many women secretly ask themselves when the stress of multi-tasking and demanding expectations becomes too […]
Sen. Martha McSally: #MeToo
Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) took a powerful stand against sexual assault in the military this morning. She was the Air Force’s first female combat fighter pilot. She was raped by […]
Books: Nicolle Wallace’s Trilogy
Would Washington, D.C. be different if women ran the government? This is the central premise of Nicolle Wallace‘s trilogy of political thrillers: Eighteen Acres, It’s Classified, and Madam President. Ms. […]
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