Did you ever have a favorite item of clothing as a child? I sure did! I recently wrote about my glorious Purple Parachute Pants for my Creative Non-Fiction class.

If there is anything that will make you feel just as small and inconsequential as you actually are, it’s geology.

What is Romeo and Juliet, to you? Is it something that you dismiss or is it something that touches you? Before taking a composition class focused on literary research, I honestly hadn’t given it two shakes. Now I’m glad I did.

Sometimes life is syrup slipping over a stone, and other times it’s free climbing a vertical rock face without proper training nor a sense of up or down.

I ruminate upon a year bookended by funerals for two people that had a deep impact on my life and experiences.