family dynamics
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People love saying “you can’t blame your parents forever” as if childhood magically stops affecting your nervous system once you pay taxes. The truth is, some wounds don’t disappear with age. You just get better at carrying them while pretending you’re fine in the Walmart checkout line. 💀
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This is late. But I needed time to process someone else’s brain. Failed miserably. So wrote this to detox the failure. Let’s just get this out of the way: This goes for any holiday. If you haven’t spoken to me in six months, don’t pop up on Christmas like we’re good. Don’t do it. Don’t…
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When you don’t have access to the people you love, you learn very quickly that words become your only proof of existence. Writing becomes more than expression—it becomes the place where truth waits patiently, in case someone comes looking for it later. I’m aware that some people will only ever know me through what I…
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So… plot twist: apparently I’ve been starring in a drama I didn’t sign up for. The setting? Courtroom land. The genre? Bad reality TV with legal stationery. Subject? I just want to see my kids without him breathing down my neck. Today’s highlight reel was brought to me via ex husband Stevie Poo’s formal court…
The Ink Chapel 