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Personal essay of my experience during Harvey

memoir journal

I wrote a poem days before Harvey for Gray Matters asking Hurricane Harvey to spare the rest of my family, to take me if it needed to take anyone. Our house was flooded with three feet of water. The poems after the flood were written for my…

e-mail broadcasts during storm

Here are two poems I wrote during Harvey, "Hazard Pay" and "Hurricane Tattoo." During Harvey, Seabrook was under voluntary evacuation so I relocated to Austin with our pets while my husband stayed in Houston to work at Texas Children's Hospital.

I was inspired to write this poem as I watched the news during Harvey. I had family members who had to be rescued from their homes, and I waited desperately to hear that they were safe. I went through Alison, and I felt it in my spirit to write this…

Houston Strong is a chapter from the new book Ride It Out: Transforming Storms Into Greatness, a newly released book dedicated to Hurricane Harvey Survivors. The book is an inspirational memoir on how to transform the painful storms in life and…

piece created during Harvey

Poems

hurricane diary I kept during Harvey