The Smothering Comfort of Clinging to Safety
A part of myself that needs love hasn’t been loved. I do not love the achiever perfectionist part of myself, clinging to safety and stifling authenticity....
Category: Writing craft
How I’m Learning to Trust the Writing Process
These days, I’m working on essays for my memoir collection. Every essay has its hard moments, but the one I’m writing now has me particularly stuck....
An Atalantean Effort
Have you ever thought about why we use the phrase “Herculean effort”? Yes, Hercules was supposedly the strongest in the land, but have you heard of ...
All I really need to know about writing I learned from riding
It’s no secret that I LOVE snowboarding. I ride about 20-30 times per year, and when I’m off the hill, I’m thinking about when I can get back on the hill. ...