All the while I've been writing. It seems to be all the energy I have, because I can sit and move my fingers. My fingers, which flew over...

Sometimes when you speak your truth, you lose friends. When I wrote about my reactions to HBO’s The Synanon Fix several months ago, I received kudos from some ex-Synanon members, and a definite chill from others. That silenced me. For a while. https://open.substack.com/pub/janetbestdart/p/speaking-my-truth?r=2twahq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I finished this quilt the day after I finished my memoir. Mixing colors and piecing fabric together helped me piece together my life in...