survivors

Gambling With The Future

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 16, 2022May 16, 2022

On Survival and Abuse: Coming Alive

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 29, 2022March 29, 2022

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 21, 2021September 21, 2021

We Are All A Little Crazy Sometimes. Into the Mystic: Van Morrison

The horrific and heartbreaking murder of Gabby Petito is inescapable. As inescapable as men who murder. Men who murder and maim and rape and scar. I turn on the television, there is her scared and confused face in the backseat of a car with a cop talking to her who will fail to save her. […]

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 9, 2021May 9, 2021

Not

I survived torture which left permanent injuries on my body and soul. I survived attempts on my life by my husband over years. I survived years of rapes. I survived loss. I survived an abusive adoptive family. I survived five years of living on the road and in campsites and forests. I survived heroin. I […]