It is Wednesday, it is 1am, it is a time a generally sleep through.  It is a time that instills no fear.  Except tonight.  I pick at my skin, I scratch pre-blood sting.  I fall into night visions of half... Read More

I am the Carolina coast, windswept in winter, sunny by day, rich in history and life and dreams of men who tire of the North with its cold, fast ways of living. I am skies full of seagulls. I am... Read More

Last week when I returned from nearly a week in my hometown of Connersville, a neighbor in my building asked me if I’d been on vacation, I said no, I was in my hometown. As I rode the elevator to... Read More

Some of you know that I grew up in a small Maine village. This village only had one place of worship and almost everybody attended it. There wasn’t a lot to do in such a small town, and teenagers’ activities,... Read More

There have been times in my life where I could not bear silence, where I swear I heard it ringing relentlessly in my ears, compounding my sense of isolation, making me feel as though the whole world was happily in... Read More

The hospital bed, one of two in the middle of the dining room, creaked and shook, just a little, as I climbed up to sit next to my grandmother. Grammie, I called her, and she was every bit of her... Read More

I’ve recently attended my first graduation ceremony, it was my own. Until this year, I’ve managed to avoid every opportunity for group celebration around completion (and many other events.)  I’ve come from a long, well-held habit of evasion.   I’d always known this... Read More

They say I oughta be able to get back to workin in a couple weeks, soon as the stitchin heals up.  I keep thinkin that doctor did something wrong, cause I know I’m stitched up tighter than before and then... Read More

We had four years of high school to nurture the spark that both of us felt but dared not fan into full blown flame. I wouldn’t name it or claim it. Our paths were too different, (or so I thought)... Read More

  This isn’t what I planned to read tonight. I had written something else. Then the Universe reminded me that I am magic. There’s no denying it. And yet, I have denied it. For years. Owning my magic was not... Read More