The Layers of Me, Including PPD

The Layers of Me, Including PPD

When people ask me what I do or what I am, I hesitate. I’m never really sure quite how to answer that question. Not because I don’t know who I am, not because I suffer from a lack of self-identity, and not because I’m ashamed of who or what I am, but because there is...

On Finally Being the Rock

Life takes us sometimes, grabs us tightly around the waist, turns us upside down, and shakes us until we are mere shadows of what we once were. Then, just as abruptly, it sets us back in an upright and locked position, only without everything solidly locked back into...
Show, Don’t Tell: The Fine Art of Advocacy

Show, Don’t Tell: The Fine Art of Advocacy

Show, don’t tell. This is one of the greatest tenets any writer has drilled into them at an early age. Show, don’t tell. Show us the action. Do not describe the tree, show us the verdant ferocity with which it lived -through calm, sunny days as well as...