Dear friends, I’ve been gearing up to teach my Writing About Ancestor Trouble class, which starts next Tuesday (it’s full! I’ll let you know if I teach it again), and getting increasingly excited about the students and their projects and everything that we will explore and work on together. It took me a long time to figure out exactly how and what I wanted to teach. There’s an expectation sometimes that a writer’s book on a subject is their complete and total thesis, an end and conclusion tied up in a bow. And yes,
"It’s not good for her or for me to be together in an abusive situation, even if it’s our last chance to see each other in this form." This is wise! I know it must have been a long, painful journey to get to this place.
I really love the artwork you included by Autumn. Lovely and thoughtful.
I'm grateful you share about your family. I'm daily navigating a semi (?) estrangement related to my own mom's Fundamentalism and my embrace of a beloved family member's true name and pronouns. And there's more to it than that, I'm sure you know. Drawing a line feels new.
I'm excited about Abbott's novel and the discoveries you're making while writing yours! There's something so sweet about anticipating the art of the future, especially from authors whose previous books I admired.
Maud I have to give it up to you. Not only for being open and honest, but for your fortitude as well. I could never handle it. I am lucky if I get an email or txt from anyone on both sides of my family every other month. People can be wolves to other people. The jaded me doesn't always say that people can also be shamans and healers.
"It’s not good for her or for me to be together in an abusive situation, even if it’s our last chance to see each other in this form." This is wise! I know it must have been a long, painful journey to get to this place.
I really love the artwork you included by Autumn. Lovely and thoughtful.
I'm grateful you share about your family. I'm daily navigating a semi (?) estrangement related to my own mom's Fundamentalism and my embrace of a beloved family member's true name and pronouns. And there's more to it than that, I'm sure you know. Drawing a line feels new.
I'm excited about Abbott's novel and the discoveries you're making while writing yours! There's something so sweet about anticipating the art of the future, especially from authors whose previous books I admired.
Maud I have to give it up to you. Not only for being open and honest, but for your fortitude as well. I could never handle it. I am lucky if I get an email or txt from anyone on both sides of my family every other month. People can be wolves to other people. The jaded me doesn't always say that people can also be shamans and healers.