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D. M. Ditson is obsessed with telling the truth. She has been writing for over a decade as a journalist and communications consultant. She shares her life story to show that healing is possible and maps out her trauma recovery with hopes of helping others free themselves.

Wide Open is her first book. Before it was published, her memoir won the John V. Hicks prize, awarded by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild. Wide Open also won a 2020 Saskatchewan Book Award and a Columbia Basin Trust artist grant.

Ditson recently moved from Regina, Saskatchewan to Nelson, British Columbia, where she can be found enjoying the mountains. She is happy.
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The baby in my pocket

My baby died four weeks ago. She died as she was born. She died because it was the outcome I chose for her, and I'm still trying to make sense of the horror where a mother has to choose between making her child suffer an...

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Published on January 19, 2022 14:11
Average rating: 4.27 · 33 ratings · 10 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
Wide Open

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“Months ago I shared my secrets with him and recognized the tenderness in his voice like I'd only given him more to love. Like a diamond that's been cut and now all its edges gleam.”
D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“It passes away like the end of a day, like a toddler’s first goldfish, like a leaf in the autumn, like grandparents, like fruit flies, like memories, like a flower that’s been picked, like childhood and youth, like Ozymandias, like a worm that gets eaten by a bird that gets caught by a cat that gets hit by a car, like starving children across the world, like everything.

The days weave together, a million tiny moments that I despise or savour or simply notice one at a time as I fall deeper and deeper into silence and into God, which is just another word for Love.”
D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“These lilies are a sacrifice, a savagery, another death needed to remember that which is no more.”
D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“Months ago I shared my secrets with him and recognized the tenderness in his voice like I'd only given him more to love. Like a diamond that's been cut and now all its edges gleam.”
D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“These lilies are a sacrifice, a savagery, another death needed to remember that which is no more.”
D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“It passes away like the end of a day, like a toddler’s first goldfish, like a leaf in the autumn, like grandparents, like fruit flies, like memories, like a flower that’s been picked, like childhood and youth, like Ozymandias, like a worm that gets eaten by a bird that gets caught by a cat that gets hit by a car, like starving children across the world, like everything.

The days weave together, a million tiny moments that I despise or savour or simply notice one at a time as I fall deeper and deeper into silence and into God, which is just another word for Love.”
D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“What if there are no villains at all?”
D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

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