The lightest snow is still slipping from the sky after a night of a steady fall. Neighbors are outside playing with their kids, snow blowing their driveway, and renovating a kitchen (new neighbors moving in across the street). All looks business as usual; you wouldn’t imagine it’s the last day of the year. The turning […]

Shadows enlarge with the entrance of uncertainty. Fear submerges me into the dark, a shell covered with the soft clay of earth, presses down and sinks me deeper than I ever knew I could go. A rise in my chest hisses to me that I am alone, helpless. If I admit it to myself, I’ve […]