by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Jan 15, 2017 | Truthfairy Project
Seeing my father lying in a casket was as surreal for me as reuniting with him had been just the month before. Neither seemed real. Somehow, I still finished my last semester of high school. Trying to save my mother from being beaten by my father during a drunken,...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Nov 30, 2016 | abuse survivor, Awaken Women : the Secret Salon, Dance, Truthfairy Project
Once upon a time, a little long while ago . . . a Turkish woman taught me everything I could learn of her dance, and from the ancient dances of our women people. She told me stories of how their melodies crossed over the winds of the seas and volumes of her own...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Nov 25, 2016 | Truthfairy Project
I tried to understand his violence toward my mother—her purpled eyes, his paranoia and the neighborhood street lights he’d shot out with his issue rifle over the hood of his Chevy one bad night. His wandering moods ebbed with the flow of Falstaff’s swallowed. Having...
