Karen MacKenzie – Page 2 – Writing and Photography

Understanding

Having children of my own has helped me understand in a deeper way what I lost when my mother’s illness

My relationship with my father was complicated. He wasn’t always critical and competitive. Today I’m sharing a prose poem which

Today I’m sharing two pieces about the way my father pushed me to be perfect as a child. Report Card

Disclaimer: no babies were harmed in the making of this poem. The Bargain

This week, I’m taking a break from painful memories of illness and sharing two light-weight pieces inspired by mothering young

Here is (perhaps) the last piece in this series. 6 – Bad Guys

Here are two more pieces in the series. They focus on the extent to which I lost my way as

We still don’t understand why my mother was so sick for so many years. Was she suffering from mental illness?

This piece is about the glue that holds a family together and what happens when that glue is lost. Clan

This piece is about the way that pain inflicted on one generation can carry through to the next one. Tom