Denise Clemen
3 min readJan 31, 2019
new photo boxes with old photo album on top

How to Store Your Photos or The Incredible Lightness of Being Divorced

I was thrown out of my life in 2007. He wanted the house, he said, so he could raise his new family there. So I left, blubbering something about how I was taking the photo albums. I moved 41 albums to my new place. And when I moved again a couple of years later, I packed up those albums again.

The second round of devatating fires here in Southern California coincided with the realization…

Denise Clemen

Birth/first mother, recovering wife, retired caregiver, traveler, collage artist. Advocate of #adopteerights and #reproductiverights and other good things.