That quote has always held true for me. It’s far easier for me to write what I think and feel than to say those things out loud. In my personal life, I’ll reach for pen and paper (more like keyboard these days, but once upon a time it was pen and paper) if I need […]

Kimberly Brock I know you of the Blue World. You are a storyteller. You are made of memory. Your mind is an endless accordion of timeless impressions. You are exhausted by the everyday. You press your face to mirrors and search for other worlds in your own eyes. You listen for the ancient voices in […]

Our lives are about change. Some people look at change as a bad thing, as something to avoid. Others view change as a possibility for something better. No matter how you feel about the life detours called change, nothing in our lives is permanent. The past six months of my life have revolved around change. […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine into Gold The waiting was over. My agent called last Tuesday with word about my submission for novel number three: my publisher had passed. (Read paragraph break as needed time for truth of this to sink in.) We strategized. Then my agent said, “Okay Kathryn, well, I’d better go get a […]

Kennedy Ryan I don’t garden. Not even a little bit. My thumbs are so black they are charred, but even I know weeds in a garden cannot be tolerated. This principle, this image of an overrun garden guides me as I think about my life. More specifically, as I manage my heart. One definition of […]