> ## Documentation Index
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# Life on a Fault Line: Essays on Grief, Loss & Survival

> Welcome to Life on a Fault Line — my personal essays on grief, divorce, music, and the darkest hours of the human experience.

Welcome to *Life on a Fault Line*, my newsletter. These are personal essays written from the wreckage and the rebuilding — honest writing about grief, the dissolution of my marriage, the strange consolation of music, and what it takes to survive and live through all of it.

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## What you'll find here

*Life on a Fault Line* is published on Substack. Each essay is a piece of long-form personal writing — the kind that takes time to read and longer to forget.

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