What Dance Taught Me about Storytelling

If you don’t count the week-long soccer camp that I rather halfheartedly participated in when I was seven, I have never played a sport, but I applaud those who do, particularly those who can play more than one. When I began taking piano lessons last year, it was...

Aquinnah’s Travel Guide

One of my absolute favorite things about reading is that it gives us the ability to travel whenever and wherever we desire. I believe that traveling is one of the great gifts that comes with being alive, but I don’t always have time to pick up my life and ship...

A Girl of Heat and Sun

Last week, I wrote about how fictional characters became my angels. This week, I want to write about what comes with living in their multiple worlds. I love the phrase, “Be here now.” There is so much packed into that one, short line, and it’s been...

Angels with Demons

It may sound scary, but having my worldview utterly torn apart and reconstructed might just be the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I’ll never forget it. I was sprawled out on the floor of my grandmother’s sewing room, reading this crazy-good book...

Why I Wouldn’t Stay

I usually begin this story with the trees. Colorado trees are very thin, you can see for miles, yadda yadda yadda. But not today. Today, I want to start with the lava. When we were very young, my brother and I pretended that our backyard swing set was surrounded by...

Dear Kindred Spirit

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