The S Word is a book for anyone who may be keeping secrets.
…For children too little to know they warrant a voice.
…For teenagers too confused to think they have a choice.
…For adults too overwhelmed to do what’s right.
And for those of us who have survived crazy and who — blessed with a little perspective (not to mention nearly a decade of therapy) — realize we no longer need to stay silent, and that spilling secrets may just help others from feeling as if they need to keep theirs.
“I thought that people who loved you weren’t supposed to hit or make fun of you. I thought that people who cared for you or who were to act sort of like your adult guardians weren’t supposed to touch you, not like that. Or hurt you. Down there. And I thought that people who were to forgive you weren’t supposed to deny you absolution, damning you to hell forever…”
Blueberry Hill Cottage: Coming Soon
She had lived in her parent’s houses and in apartments of her own, but never in a place that felt like “home.” Now nearing her 40th birthday, still single, living in a studio with a cat and little else, Paolina dreamed of what she had thought her life would already be. With barely a penny to her name, she began:
…a fireplace big enough to cook two children …windows, more windows than walls …an outdoors that feels as if it’s inside…
Her list went on, mapping out the house she wished was home.
On a whim, drawn by an open house sign on the side of a road, Paolina comes face to face with a place that is not only the brick and mortar realization of her dreams, but a place that seems to know her as much as she knows it. Somehow, they belong to one another, as if the home had its own soul. “Blueberry Hill Cottage” had claimed Paolina to be her own. This true and somewhat other-worldly tale is the story of how one home’s soul played matchmaker, connecting lives and loves.
