Number fourteen will shock you!

Sometimes growth is tearing something down, moving it around, finding a new path… Life’s your story. Write it however you wish.

Whatever she feels that makes her play the trumpet at night, I know I’ve felt it too.

Uncle David was nothing if not larger than life (and if you had ever seen him, you would understand just how significant a compliment this is).

Reflections on my first large, independent creative endeavor upon A Place I Have Never Been ascending to Goodreads!

My favorite selections from Justin Corriss’ @jxmc575 attempted daily haikus!

Life’s in the balance, and the reality of a lost year, if one still wants to think about it like that, is contrasted with the knowledge of (hopefully) many more.

A Series of Unfortunate Events teaches us that the random, absurd cruelty of the world and all the people in it cannot always smother the fires (is that a bad pun) inside of us.

While The French Lieutenant’s Woman is not the first book I’ve thrown across a room, it’s certainly one I’ve thrown the hardest.

Maybe it really is cheating to include my favorite Dorothy Parker poems on my list of Top Ten Books. But they come from a book, a book that taught me words for a struggle I wasn’t sure how to describe…