Archive - Born Survivors

Cooking It Forward

How do you express your love?

Jul 9 •

Linda Gray Sexton

June 2025

Who Am I, After All?

Sometimes, inspiration comes to me from strange sources: a fragment I read—or sometimes write—without knowing that its push and pull is inside me all…

Jun 18 •

Linda Gray Sexton

Surveillance With Stethoscope and Gavel

My Battle With Opioids

Jun 4 •

Linda Gray Sexton

May 2025

Friendship Follows the Frequent Flyers

“The French philosopher Camus used to tell himself quietly to live to the point of tears, not as a call for maudlin sentimentality, but as an invitation…

May 21 •

Linda Gray Sexton

Suffering Shapes the Soul

“All I teach is suffering and the end of suffering.”

May 7 •

Linda Gray Sexton

April 2025

A Willing Apprentice

How My Mother’s Pulitzer Prize Exploded Into Our Family’s Kitchen

Apr 30 •

Linda Gray Sexton

Stretching for Enlightenment: Bringing My Story and Yours To Substack

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” --Eleanor Roosevelt

Apr 24 •

Linda Gray Sexton

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