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  • I so appreciate this article. I've been working on an essay, The Divorce Diarist, for so long my eyes are black and blue! It's been hard because living the topic has been so hard. I t...
  • ...lenty of topics I am not yet ready to revisit, e.g. my daughter's addiction issues (I'm not sure I'll ever be ready), my journey through puberty, divorce, grief. There are some I am j...
  • ...ting.) I'd been writing for almost 44 years, have published 24 novels and many short stories since 1984...nothing EVER stopped me - not a vicious divorce, taking care of a son, a new...
  • I liked the article on divorce recovery and I realize this time of year is one of the hardest going thr...ne could compare recovering from a war and being in active duty, to some divorces but most of the time divorce...
  • Deborah, I loved your post! Brought back memories about when I was going through a divorce, a period of depression, alienation from the children, (1,2,3). My friends sent me little ca...
  • ...eartbreak, terrible bosses, wonderful bosses, affairs (whether we're a victim, a perpetrator or a bystander as we see our friends go through it), divorce, midlife crises (our own or s...
  • Due to family situation, not just writing, I changed my name after divorce. Very sensible shift, family-based, etc. Not scary; empowering.
  • ...and more literary, like brilliant professors.  I was still struggling to find my own performance voice when I won the She Writes/Huffington Post Divorce Essay contest -- and was invi...
  • Beautiful essay Kamy!! Thanks so much for sharing; divorce is so complicated but your essay does a great job of balancing gratitude and pain. Good luck on your reading tonight in Brooklyn ;-) Greenlight is lucky to have you!
  • Cate I am also so moved by your perspective as a child of divorce -- please let me know if you share the essay with your dad, how wonderful that it might start a dialogue you didn't e...