Tag Archives: trauma

About last night…

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Gabriella West

Wow. A mixture of feelings here, but one predominates. After watching the increasingly grim CNN election footage for a number of hours and realizing that Hillary Clinton was not going to win, I went on Facebook and wrote, “I personally … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Personal | Tagged Bill Maher, cnn, David Fredrickson, donald trump, Facebook, garrison keillor, grief, Hillary Clinton, hope, michael moore, presidential election 2016, spiritual, trauma, traumatic events | 1 Comment

New Year; A Look Back at Reading

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Gabriella West

Well, it’s January 1, and last year was so busy with both writing and editing work that I didn’t get to tend to this blog as much as I should have. So here’s a little recap. Thinking back to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse & Recovery, LGBT, Reviews, Writing | Tagged 2015, cutting, ebooks, great American novel, Hanya Yanagihara, intimacy, Kindle, Oliver Sacks, pain, Peter Hujar, reading, sex, sexual abuse, sexuality, suicide, survival, trauma | Leave a comment

Review: The Goldfinch

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Gabriella West

Ah, The Goldfinch… This has to be one of the books I waited the longest to read. Got it on my Kindle when it first came out, was a bit put off by the hype, started plowing into the initial … Continue reading →