My Journal
Bubble Boy: Growing Up With a Sick Sibling and Learning How to Love
Sometimes love doesn't look like equality. Sometimes it looks like giving each child exactly what they need.My mother loved my brother more than me. There. I said it. Before anybody calls their therapist on my behalf, let me explain something. I'm perfectly fine with...
The Ones Who Got Away: Healing the Unfinished Relationships of My Life
What if the person who got away wasn't actually the one who got away?What if they were a teacher? That's one of the strangest things I discovered while writing How I Killed My Mother. I started this memoir thinking I was going to work out my relationship with my...
Meet My Mom: Understanding the Woman Who Shaped My Life
Years after portraying his mother through the anger of his younger self in Mafia Hairdresser, Jon-David revisits their complicated relationship with a different perspective. Time, forgiveness and writing revealed something unexpected: understanding his mother meant understanding his own part in their story.
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Jon-David – Author, Podcaster, Hairdresser
