Category: sexual abuse
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The Spotted Ones.

I lost my father a few days ago. This post isn’t about that but it frames what I’m writing. I’ve lived too long (thankfully) and have tackled too few of my issues for my life to be linear. I have lost the opportunity to address problems as they come. When you let them pile up…
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the Family business

Doesn’t seem like the time to write about this but here I am. Writing about a culture of irrationality. I call it intergenerational trauma but its also intergenerational abuse. One begets the other. I come from a family with sexual secrets. A great-great grandmother who ran a brothel in the red light district of Cincinnati;…