“13 books to make you feel hopeful as the new year gets underway”

Feat accomplished. I am, finally, SOMETHING TO BE READ FOR THE PURPOSES OF INSTILLING HOPE! I knew that all these years, if I kept just shoegazing during my mope rock (aka writing about suicidality, psychosis, carceral care, ableism, stigma, sundry adverse events of childhood, medical neglect, and oh! deer deer deer deer deer) I would finally be seen! (HAD to be the effect of the smile, so rare! And only elicited because my eldest, taking the picture, is very fun and safe).

They came!

They came! Re: “How to lose the audience”, I think I just did this today on a conference call (keeping it real). My thanks to the mighty ‘manse, to Mary and Brian, & to the magazines (Malahat, Fiddlehead) and editors (Iain, Rowan) that gave me a chance to lose more audiences