Shattering the Silence

“He doesn’t deserve to be forgiven,” my friend Neal said years ago. He added, “For a long time, I held in the anger and unforgiveness toward...

(This post is from Roger Mann.) ​"It’s not you, it’s me." I know, it’s an old break-up line. That said, it’s one that has gone thr...

Since the early days of this blog, I’ve limited the word count to 400 words. Sometimes I’ve cut pieces into 2 or even 3 entries. In the word...

(This post comes from Roger Mann.) Another abuse survivor wrote, “I have some people . . . from my past who I need to forgive. I have never ...

I doubt that anyone thought of me as a controller—at least no one ever used that term to my face. But I was and had learned ways of controll...

(This post comes from Roger Mann.) I saw an ad on the MSN home page about Chuck Connors, the guy who starred for five years as The Riflem...

A few weeks ago, I compared the rape of 15-year-old Maya, to that of male assault. She’s a major figure in the novel, Beartown . Today I fi...