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My anger is powerful. When it rips through me, it feels like an all-consuming, overwhelming fire. I realize that even when I do not actively experience it, it is still there, somewhere deep within me, dormant until triggered. When directed at my husband, it also feels very self-righteous. I no longer fear my emotions. I […]
Read More >>I woke up Saturday morning still reeling from the ridiculous fight Wladimir and I had when we returned home the previous evening. I was particularly hurt, because the fight felt out of the blue: we actually had a really nice Friday. We’d had some good conversations and I felt connected. We’d spent the afternoon walking […]
Read More >>It’s been years since the five of us were together for the holidays. So much has happened for each one of us since then. My children became adults. I died and re-built myself from scratch. Looking back now, I see that this pause became a kind of a reset. We had to explode apart, to […]
Read More >>2024 will remain a milestone year in my life’s story. Roughly a year ago – in November of 2023 – my husband and I made a decision that felt insane at the time, but has proven to be among the best decisions we have ever made. We decided to give up most of our possessions […]
Read More >>I spent most of last week in great irritation toward my husband. Every once in a while a powerful anger and frustration rise in me. In those moments it’s hard to believe that just a few days prior my feelings were those of peaceful contentment. The changes in moods do not surprise nor bother me. […]
Read More >>“Familial love is Stockholm Syndrome… We need people to survive so we love people to survive.” A friend sent me this post by @makingfriendsonline over the weekend. My friend has recently lost her mother. After years of torment, she says her mother’s death felt like a relief. She felt that this post reflected the many […]
Read More >>I am a US citizen and I vote in presidential elections. I haven’t always voted, although I have the right since I became naturalized in my early 20s. When I was younger, the whole election process felt incomprehensible. My parents, raised in the USSR, did not model voting or being empowered in their civil duties […]
Read More >>On Sunday morning I woke up in Vienna, flooded with memories. After three weeks of moving every few days, to wake up in a familiar setting, in the city that I know well, in the comfort of a family home felt like a blessing and filled me with gratitude. My in-laws live in Vienna, Austria. […]
Read More >>Today is my mother’s 80th birthday. My sister and I have been planning mom’s birthday celebration for months, organizing a reunion in Sicily. My mother lives in Israel. She has moved there when she and my father split up roughly 12 years ago. When we considered how to celebrate this milestone birthday we decided to […]
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