While my mother lay dying from breast cancer at the age of 47, she wrote a letter to her parents. Both of my maternal grandparents were extraordinary people. They were full-blooded Finnish and as my mother was their only daughter, they cherished and wisely guided her. My grandfather provided discipline,…
It was my favorite month, the month of Christmas, December of 1987. The funeral home I had used to bury my fiance, Chuck, who had died of lung cancer on the previous July 13th had invited me to a Memorial Service. I wasn’t sure I wanted to tamper with the…
I have written many blog postings about the dark side of the moon, where victims of child sexual abuse and incest dwell until they become survivors. Some never make it. Some live their lives as victims, pulling in more and more painful events until as they get older feel as…
The Telegraph, a London newspaper blasted headlines on August 28, 2011: “Pedophilias have won unsupervised access to their own children because it would breach their human rights to keep them apart judges have ruled”. The Daily Caller had its own contribution. They commented on August 15: “If a small group…
Webster defines incest as “sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry legally.” It is a simple, almost clinical description that does not in any way imply trauma or abuse. The all-encompassing and often unspoken reality is much broader. Anyone in a position of power who coerces a person…
