I Left Home With 200 Dollars After My Family Called Me Unstable Then My Sister Found My Name Online

Tomorrow Together, it read. March 15th. Community Center on Maple Street. Keynote speaker, Selena Lawson, Chief Operating Officer, Hale and Associates.

And I thought, not for the first time that week, about my grandmother’s handwriting on a piece of paper I had found at the bottom of a wooden box five years into a life I had built entirely from nothing.continue reading …