Be Epic
Every now and then, I have these strong instincts to do things. Some of these instincts are so intense that they become compulsions, and I quickly find myself swept away. There’s a little strain of...
View ArticleThe Weight of a Word
We hold back. We fill our minds with “should”s and “shouldn’t”s, and find we’re frustrated by the walls we’ve built around ourselves. Our desires become tethered to us, and in an effort to rid...
View ArticleGypsy Blood
There’s a storm that’s been gathering in me — I’ve sensed it for some months. It’s come in small surges, receding each time. But that distance thunder has been there, and I’ve been counting the seconds...
View ArticleThe Lost Colony
Growing up, it was always the ghost stories, the mysteries, the tales of fantastical times and other worlds that I loved the most. They sparked my imagination. They opened my eyes to the wonders around...
View ArticleLost + Found
After every breakup, I have wondered how much more I can take — how much more disappointment, how many more secrets, how much more loss of identity I can handle. That was the past. In the two and a...
View ArticleSpace + Time
If there’s anything we Americans want more of, it’s space and time. We want bigger homes, more land, high ceilings, more bedrooms, more time, longer weekends, more freedom… I have told myself for years...
View ArticleThe Rut
To put it simply, I’ve been stuck. I find myself in a place where it’s hard to breathe, where I feel the weight of expectations heavy on me. It is as if I were at the bottom of a lake in an air bubble,...
View ArticleThe Stone Angels
There are stories about the statues at Bonaventure: whispers of them moving locations when no one is looking, stories of statues possessed… And they do seem to have a life to them I’ve never seen in...
View ArticleHow I Lost (and Found) Myself
I love taking chances. It’s been nearly a year since I moved to Roanoke, Virginia after meeting my boyfriend at an archery tournament last summer. I knew the only way for us to really explore our...
View ArticleMercury Retrograde
Sometimes, everything is chaos. That’s the way it’s been for weeks now. Since Mercury started retrograding, but even a bit before that. I travelled to Scotland, spent a night watching old pagan rights...
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