Letters From A Bad Mother | Dana Seilhan | Substack

[Althea] Why I'm angry: Abortion edition

Dear Althea, At the present moment, as you know, you’ve gone no-contact with me and I, unless I message you with my new phone number, won’t be…

May 28 •

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[Sean] Hello, firstborn

Dear Sean, I still have to sort of figure out what I want to say to you and how I want to arrange it, because my natural tendency is to just type a huge…

May 10 •

[Althea] Time to go?

Dear Althea, I have finished day two of my new job, and so far I like it. I realize this is premature and that I can’t really get a good feel for how…

May 10 •

[Althea] Graduation

Dear Althea, Congratulations on your graduation. I found out about it by googling your trans name (Quill) and running across the UU Church’s video of…

May 1 •

If a writer setting up a Substack for the purpose of writing letters to her adult children seems a shade too personal for you, that’s because it is. So…

Apr 26 •

Letters From A Bad Mother

Letters From A Bad Mother

Messages and stories for my two children, one lost to post-divorce grandparent adoption and the other alienated by the trans fad.

Letters From A Bad Mother

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