Category: Life & Art

• August 6, 2022

  N.K. Jemisin Makes Me Want to Cry (In a Good Way)

  A lot of you will have heard of N.K. Jemisin and her phenomenal and award-winning Broken Earth trilogy. Or her beautiful short story collection, How Long ‘til Black Future Month? If you haven’t, I recommend you go out right now and read something of hers. This blog post is specifically a response to the short…
• August 4, 2022

  Confessions of a Serial Story-Starter…Part 2

  A few years back I wrote a piece on this blog talking about my bad habit of starting stories and never finishing them. I’ve lost count of how many story ideas I’ve had in my life. There is always that initial honeymoon phase when the idea is new and exciting and I would crank out…
• September 30, 2018

  Tarot Cards, Tea and Indecision

  Fall seems to get under my skin these days. It used to be my favorite time of year. But now I associate some pretty unhappy things with fall so that the changing leaves and air quality seem to bring out a sort of depression in me. This year it doesn’t help that I seem to…
• April 3, 2018

  Climbing Mountains – 12 Steps for Perseverance and Overcoming Fear

  Today I climbed a mountain and looked fear in the face. I have been on very intimate terms with fear for a long time now. Starting with an anxiety disorder diagnosis in high school, moving through my mother’s cancer diagnosis and eventual death, to now. This is a different sort of fear than I’ve had…
• March 19, 2018

  To My Heart On My Darkest Days

  Always remember there is still good in the world. It can be the smallest of things. A beautiful sunrise. A smile from a stranger. A friendly word. A small act of kindness. Sometimes you have to look for it. But once you start looking, it will begin to reveal itself in a thousand tiny ways…