by Dawn Bradford | Sep 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
I wrote this guest blog for the American SPCC at their request, telling my story. It was published on their site August 30, 2018. I still remember the moment of disbelief when the first glimmers of childhood sexual abuse emerged. I was forty-one years old. The memory...
by Dawn Bradford | Sep 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
At the end of August I made my first international trip by heading off to a writing retreat in Scotland and then taking a couple extra days to travel down to London. It was amazing, but could have felt more like a disaster. I had planned on being a guest at this...
by Dawn Bradford | Aug 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
I wrote this guest blog for the American SPCC and it was published on their site August 9, 2018. My parents didn’t understand why their quiet, helpful child turned into a withdrawn and angry teen. I didn’t understand either. I became suicidal for years before marrying...
by Dawn Bradford | Aug 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
I know that when I decide to do something, I jump in with both feet and charge forward. Inevitably, I fall on my face by trying to go faster than I’m able. It gets me every time. I thought by my forties I’d finally remember this and start things a little...
by Dawn Bradford | Aug 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
In Utah, as well as many cold places I’ve lived, the color of summer is orange. Sometimes we joke that we have Winter, Spring, Construction, and Fall. It’s not really true, because construction season gears up in Spring and winds down in Fall so it’s...
by Dawn Bradford | Aug 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
People told me once my son left for boot camp I’d get a one or two sentence letter if I was lucky. Not from my son. He has been sending letters every day or two, filling the front and back of each page. He has always been better at long distance communication...
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