For the longest time, I believed that if you wanted something badly enough, you should be willing to fight for it. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the things in life that can’t be hurried, no matter how badly we want them to happen. Some things simply need time, because we’re still becoming the people who […]
He held the photo in front of my face and excitedly said, “Can you see it?” I starred intently at the photo and tried to make out what was going on in this dark and very blurry image from his trip to the said-to-be-haunted Sallie House, in Atchison, Kansas. The problem was, he was holding […]
I’ve recently realized how curiosity has been at the wheel during most of my life. So many of the significant, surprising moments ingrained in my memory came from an insatiable need to find answers to the questions that pop up in my mind. That pull to explore a subject, a creative project, a situation, or […]
There’s a famous Carl Jung quote that says life doesn’t truly begin until our forties and that everything before then is research. Over the last four years, I’ve discovered just how true that is. A lot has changed in the four years since I’ve shared in this space. My marriage ended and what was one […]