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Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least ex...

Donna Freitas

Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least ex...

Tags: life, realizations

There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no. That space is not a compromis...

Donna Freitas

There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no. That space is not a compromis...

About Author
Donna Freitas (; born 1972) is a scholar, teacher, writer, and author of fiction and non-fiction for both adults and teenagers. Born in Rhode Island, the most Catholic state in the United States, Freitas's Catholic religion and spirituality inform much of her writing. Her writing also addresses sexuality, consent, and college campus culture.

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because t...

Donna Freitas

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because t...

Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?

Donna Freitas

Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?

I've barely been able to think about anything else.''Other than...' He waited for me to finish.'Kissing you, dummy,' I said.'Really?''You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said.He grinned. 'I'm just gla...

Donna Freitas

I've barely been able to think about anything else.''Other than...' He waited for me to finish.'Kissing you, dummy,' I said.'Really?''You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said.He grinned. 'I'm just gla...

This is what I imagined as I watched my kite, my beautiful kite, with its heart, its star and crayon, its note and flowers glowing from the light of the sun behind it. I felt love and grief and joy an...

Donna Freitas

This is what I imagined as I watched my kite, my beautiful kite, with its heart, its star and crayon, its note and flowers glowing from the light of the sun behind it. I felt love and grief and joy an...

I thought about love as we stood there, the day turning to dusk and the temperature dropping, and my heart, the one inside of me, become fuller.

Donna Freitas

I thought about love as we stood there, the day turning to dusk and the temperature dropping, and my heart, the one inside of me, become fuller.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

Donna Freitas

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

Tags: spirituality

I am a survivor, but I also am, and always will be, a victim. I can't speak for others who share this dual identity, but I can say for myself that, while I wish to be the proud person who exclusively...

Donna Freitas

I am a survivor, but I also am, and always will be, a victim. I can't speak for others who share this dual identity, but I can say for myself that, while I wish to be the proud person who exclusively...

The girl I am now, girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.

Donna Freitas

The girl I am now, girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.

So what are you saying? he asked.That we'd be crazy if we don't try again. That you good for me, Will Doniger. You've proven it again and again.He hesitated before he turned to me, words hovering on...

Donna Freitas

So what are you saying? he asked.That we'd be crazy if we don't try again. That you good for me, Will Doniger. You've proven it again and again.He hesitated before he turned to me, words hovering on...

Now you, Grandma barks at him. Yes, you, the invisible truck driver, she added, giving me a wicked grin. Go stand next to Rose over there by the stone bench and smile like you mean it.Yes, ma'am, Will...

Donna Freitas

Now you, Grandma barks at him. Yes, you, the invisible truck driver, she added, giving me a wicked grin. Go stand next to Rose over there by the stone bench and smile like you mean it.Yes, ma'am, Will...

…) I devised a list of things I needed to accomplish, all of them related to the Survival Kit and my mother. I was no longer going in any particular order or interpreting my tasks so literally and nar...

Donna Freitas

…) I devised a list of things I needed to accomplish, all of them related to the Survival Kit and my mother. I was no longer going in any particular order or interpreting my tasks so literally and nar...

The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will’s arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.

Donna Freitas

The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will’s arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.

Before the first plugs, an early version of the virtual world existed. People carried around handheld devices that allowed them to access it.

Donna Freitas

Before the first plugs, an early version of the virtual world existed. People carried around handheld devices that allowed them to access it.

All around the country, at universities far and wide, at workplaces of all sizes and types, at companies that boast of doing good and making the world a better place, there are file cabinets full of t...

Donna Freitas

All around the country, at universities far and wide, at workplaces of all sizes and types, at companies that boast of doing good and making the world a better place, there are file cabinets full of t...

…) it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether!

Donna Freitas

…) it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether!

…) I`d learned from experience that hugging someone only encouraged the person to cry even harder and I always wanted the tears to stop. But I was beginning to understand that there would always be sa...

Donna Freitas

…) I`d learned from experience that hugging someone only encouraged the person to cry even harder and I always wanted the tears to stop. But I was beginning to understand that there would always be sa...

…) I would work my way toward the Rose from before, who laughed often, who felt things so deeply, who could move through the world brimming with feeling and emotion.

Donna Freitas

…) I would work my way toward the Rose from before, who laughed often, who felt things so deeply, who could move through the world brimming with feeling and emotion.

…) I was out of practice with my emotions (…)

Donna Freitas

…) I was out of practice with my emotions (…)