I sat in the back of the library with my seventeen- year-old friends. With heads down, we flipped through bridal magazines and whispered...

I slay my fears and place them on the altar, the last obstacles preventing our union. Though a pagan, I kneel, sing the hymns, pretend to...

March roared in, a lion breathing snow, ice, wind, and bitter cold as it drug winter along behind, like the hock of a dead animal. It...

We are all glaciers as we transform, split, and calf pieces of ourselves. Beliefs fall away. Discarded and outdated, the mind seeks new...

The precariousness of life strikes you only as you move through it. Like a maze with dark alleys and tight turns, it careens out of...

When the path diverges, we must always choose, not knowing if the road untaken will ever present itself again. With the benefit of time...

Existing is not living. It is marking hours, hiding in plain sight, pretending nothing is wrong.

We are not allowed to feel the sun warm our face for more than a fleeting moment. We are not allowed to bask in newfound love without...