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I wrote my memoirs after my father died. His death caused me to reorganize and redefine my life as a way of moving on. My childhood was an abusive and chaotic one and my memoirs are framed by my father's death and told through a lens of grief. However, it is not an altogether unhappy story. (strange little girl: memoirs of a sad-eyed lady)

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by Sara Mcgrath

In my dream, my father lies belly up on the floor of a supermarket, perhaps on his way to the chocolate aisle. He appears heavier, larger than I have ever seen him. He lies capsized on the cold white-...More>
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Death,Loss, and Grief

  • Memoirs: My Father
    My father lives at the edge of the forest, aiming for feral, when he and my meth-addicted, teenaged mother give life to me. My mother tells me, "He looked like a wild man coming out of the shadows of the trees."
  • Memorial Day passed by The day you died I'm still reeling From the enormity of loss

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting

  • The memory of my daughter’s birth is one of my most precious memories, but it’s different than other memories because I remember hard labor...
  • Essays: Parenting
    A Letter to My Younger Sisters As New Mothers
  • I'll begin my baby's birth story now, for although her birth is four months away, it began in my mind when I discovered I was pregnant. This is my second child, my second pregnancy, my second birth. I'm not afraid of parenting, of laboring, or of giving birth as I was during my first pregnancy.

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I created this montage as part of my memoirs project.

by Sara Mcgrath

"I run down the street screaming and crying," my sister says. "Me, too," I say, "Like a lunatic." I smile, or try to. What's wrong with running out your pain under the moon? I rather appreciate the...More>
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Childhood Abuse

  • Childhood Abuse: How to Move On
    Like many survivors of childhood abuse, I have had a difficult time letting go of the past and moving on. For years I thought I was doomed to suffer throughout my entire life, and I resented that. I felt ensnared in my history. With frequent reminders and triggers of the old feelings, how could I ever escape?
  • The Irish say that the bogeyman is a type of faerie who lives in the bog and kidnaps children so he can play with them. They say that he keeps them a year and a day, but he kept me for six years.

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