About the Project    

Over the course of the three years after I graduated from college, I lost almost everything. I lost my place to live, I lost my heart, I lost my desire to succeed. I lost the understanding of how I wanted my life to proceed. How could someone raised in a good family, with a good education and a bright future, devolve to the point where she was living without heat or hot water in a Massachusetts winter, and surviving on one meal a day?

How could an intelligent, promising young woman find herself without dreams or hope for the future?

I am writing my story in the hope that it will shed light on my generation's plight--that of being promised the world and given nothing--and also interest people who may wonder how I managed to survive and live to dream again after what happened to me.

It's my hope that people reading this site will be interested enough in my story for me to post a new section of the memoir every month or so, like an exceedingly slow blog, but this may not come to pass. Please email me with your thoughts.

Names and situations have been altered to protect the innocent (and the guilty).