We Are Not Our Things

When my daughter died, I clung tightly to her things. After my neighbor’s foreclosure, I began to let go of them.

My Life in Song: Processing Grief Through the 1992 Hit Disney Musical, “Newsies”

CW: physical abuse, animal abuse, self-harm

I was seven in 1992, the year Newsies came out and the year I began to have suicidal thoughts at summer camp. Watching my…