Clarity

It is funny what you can see after your vision is obscured by something. There is nothing chemically different about your eyes; there is no reaction that really takes place in the small units of life that should enable you to see more. Yet every time you cry, every time it rains, every time you open your eyes …

Bookends and Beginnings

I've loved to read ever since I could. The stories I read as a child would captivate me as I lay under the blankets of my bed, holding a flashlight in one hand and a much-loved book in the other. Characters were close friends, authors were parents, and the stories themselves were like scrapbook memories: timeless. I …