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...

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

"Oh my God. All these decades later, I still look at shaving my head through the lens of living in a cult. It made sense at the time. No!...

Melancholy. Anger. Despondence. That's how watching HBO's The Synanon Fix left me.

My first reaction struck me: I need to toughen my gut – right out of Synanon lingo. Not, what the hell is she talking about? No, I was...

HBO's documentary starts today. I always experience a little dread when these documentaries come out. Will it be another sensational,...

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Once you've bought the party line, life is simple. Your main goal is to show everyone else the way. Your life has direction. You can be...

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https://substack.com/profile/171147806-janet-best-dart/note/c-45312882?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2twahq A must-watch. I lived...

Then, one day, my baby was moved five hundred miles away from me to be raised in a community school.