Uncovering Hidden Truths: Jacque Gorelick’s Journey Through Love, Loss, and Redemption in Map of a Heart
MB: I have a different story, but with a lot of similarities, so I get it. I think having kids after you’ve had an unstable or challenging childhood, is a chance to do it over, not just for the kids, but you’re doing it over for yourself too.
JG: That’s true. That’s really true.
Meet the Contributor
Morgan Baker writes about reinventing yourself, learning how to handle loss, and emerging from depression in her award-winning memoir Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Good-byes (Ten16 Press). Other work can be found in the Boston Globe Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Martha’s Vineyard Times, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Grown & Flown, Motherwell and the Brevity Blog, among others. She teaches at Emerson College and is managing editor of The Bucket. She is the mother of two adult daughters and lives with her husband and two Portuguese water dogs in Cambridge, Mass. She is an avid quilter and baker.
