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Long-form essays · free · biweekly
OutLoud
Deliberate motherhood — not the aspirational kind, but the kind that happens in the actual kitchen.
“Written when I have something to actually say.”
Memoir in progress — Crap Is Crap
You were the smart one.That’s how you stayed safe.Nobody’s coming to hand you permission.
Kim Ashton grew up in a house like that. Now she’s writing the story of getting out — and of what she’s building instead. Two publications, one memoir in progress. No advice, no five-step anything.
The memoirPlainly
I am not a guru. I don’t have a framework. I am building now from what came after.
Kim Ashton
Memoir in progress
Crap Is Crap— Still Here Anyway
It’s about what it’s like to grow up inside a house where you had to be smart just to stay safe.
And then it’s about what you build once you’re out.
The choices, the values, the slow work of becoming someone her daughters can actually point to. The book is still being written. It arrives in pieces, essay by essay, in OutLoud.
Read it as it’s writtenFree. Biweekly.
Where to read her
Two publications. One voice that doesn’t flinch.
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The real-time column · shorter, quicker
ChaosCuddlesCapsules
Short dispatches from the middle of it — for the parents who don’t need fixing, just company.
“The things I’d normally just think and not say, said out loud.”
About Kim
Building a life that doesn’t look like the one I came from.
I’m Kim Ashton. I live in Tennessee with my partner Rodney and our three daughters. I write at night, after they’re in bed.
None of it is a lesson. It’s the record of one person doing this on purpose — falling short, saying so, and going back at it the next night.
Still here anyway.
An invitation
Join me on the river.
No judgements here.
No spam. No sales funnel. Only writing.