‘DV Awareness Month’ and ‘Joy’: two stops on the blog tour.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month – Children often the overlooked victims on Before It’s News.

I am quoted liberally. Here’s one:

When I think of domestic violence, I think of trying to shrink into my chair at the dining table as my mother screamed at my father about his extramarital affairs–just waiting, waiting, knowing it would come–and then it did: he snapped.

Just Katherine: this thoughtful blog’s namesake asked me to write briefly on the topic of joy. You need to scroll to the very bottom.

This rich subject is a challenging one for me to explore in a brief manner. Here’s how it opens.

A woman in a support group once called me “damaged.” Did I mention that this was in a support group? Peer-led, no moderator, so it was up to me to responded—perhaps with: “Is ‘damaged’ worse than unpardonably rude?”