Love, shame and 325 bags of trash
In my mother’s hoarding house, I found something I wanted to keep
by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann
Deborah Derrickson Kossmann is a clinical psychologist based in Philadelphia, US. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have been published by The New York Times, the Nashville Review, and Psychotherapy Networker, among others. She is the author of Lost, Found, Kept: A Memoir (2025).
Written by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann