Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: abuse

Christmas calls you home

A meditation this Christmas: the birth of Christ calls you home.

25 December 2019
Because I love myself enough

Someone who was supposed to love me abused me instead. Putdowns. Belittling. Gaslighting. Crazymaking. Intimidation. Isolation. Limiting who I could have as friends. Destroying my possessions. Occasionally even punching me in the face. It’s been over for a long, long time. Thank God. I’ve worked hard to sort out what happened and make a healthy, happy life. You…

19 October 2015
I shed no tears for Amazon’s white-collar workers — but its blue-collar workers deserve better

Some companies are just hard to work for. Amazon appears to be one of them. I shed no tears for its white-collar workers, but in many cases its blue-collar workers deserve better. The big online retailer’s corporate culture has been in the news a lot lately after a damning article in the New York Times lambasted the…

24 August 2015
Why New Jersey’s anti-bullying law is both too much and not enough

A few boys started to pick on me a little when I was in the fifth grade. I was never a fighter; I always wanted to get along, and so I always tried to just laugh it away. Sometimes they were a little belligerent, and I tried to keep the peace by appeasing them. When…

8 September 2011