Elaine van der Geld

Writer and feminist. Words @kenyonreview @mqr_tweets @grainLitMag, @pshares, @thenormalschool. Notable Best American Essays 2020 - @[email protected]

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

This was a hard story to write. It's about how abuse can sometimes look and feel like love, how sometimes we can only know the difference years later, when the damage is done. Thanks @kenyonreview for giving it a place in the world.

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

"She returns most often to still-life descriptions because they make Mr. Marsh happiest. They make him nod and mouth the word, 'yes,' and draw happy exclamation points in the margins."

New on Kenyon Review Online, "Hunger" by @elainevan

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[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@Ryanair rented us a car via Europcar for pick up at 7, got there but office had closed at 6. Called but no response. Rented a new car for triple the price from elsewhere. Emailed @Ryanair immediately and they reply we are a no show and will be charged a cancellation fee! #scam

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@harikondabolu Or Canadian friends

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

Received my contributor copy of the @dalhousiereview today! Thank you to the editors for giving my story, “Edges” a home. It’s about postpartum mental illness and how we all lose ourselves a little in those early baby days.

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@clhubes I just realized this morning that I’ve exited this phase… after five years.

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@clhubes I was on that phase of parenting in the height of COVID and it also meant constant—and I mean constant— testing and absences at my in-person job.

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@clhubes It’s like starting all over again the way you had to when you were twelve and woke up one day and found you had a whole new body and a whole new life.

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@nycsouthpaw Yes, please!

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@chronicallybeee I’m blown away by the replies here. It tastes bright? Like *lime*! That is so far off of how I taste it! I taste good soap

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@StorySorcery Yep, I wonder about this often.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

"Science and the world at large are really concerned over all the extreme climate events hitting societies across the planet. But what worries us, even more, is the rising signs of dwindling planetary resilience.” https://t.co/uOid4zQyBO

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@1followernodad No wonder they’re so cranky

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@clairebearian @clhubes I live in Belgium and my daughter *only* gets English from me… and TV. She says all kinds of amazing words I’ve never exposed her to because TV supports her language learning!

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@clhubes During pregnancy I tried to visualise all the things I thought would be hard with a baby and then tried to work out the issues I could BEFORE she was born. I had immediately pictures wrestling with a stroller and bought a bugaboo. Best purchase ever.

[paul laity @paullaity]

I've written this about Martha.

Can I forgive myself for my daughter’s death? https://t.co/pq6xbzxq7w

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@biasbe @Universe__Lover Congrats. My kid barely eats, has a range of about 15 foods, gained only one pound in a year, dropping percentiles, and I say the exact same line as you and never cater to her. Your friends who accommodate might have had picky eaters *anyway* even if they hadn’t.

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@RZAgent Ha! I tried the same word today.

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@a_h_reaume Mind you, this was in reply to my own grossly inappropriate BPD diagnosis. I was a depressed teen with PTSD with healthy skepticism of cognitive behaviour therapy (I told my inpatient doctors, “but some people’s experiences ARE just objectively bad” and they didn’t like that)

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@a_h_reaume I once had a friend who works in psychiatry tell me BPD is the diagnosis given to women psychiatrists don’t like. If the psychiatrist has a strong reaction to the woman or just doesn’t like her, must be BPD.

[Elaine van der Geld @elainevan]

@AdrianaBarton I’m on day 8 of covid and what I found out in my reading is that saline nasal rinses help cut virulence especially early on, and if you can get n acetyl cysteine, that also seems to be a non-bullshitty treatment. It’s exceedingly common in Europe but less so in Canada. Good luck!