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  • 📚 Dog-Eared Pages #1

    I’m only a couple of pages into this book, and it’s already made me stop. “She stuck out in a sea of black. Like a single white rose among a bed of thorns.” I love imagery that paints a picture before I know anything about the characters. As a writer, I’m always paying attention to…

  • History After Dark

    The Dancing Plague of 1518 When an Entire City Couldn’t Stop Dancing July 1518 • Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire (Modern-day France)   Welcome to History After Dark. The kind of history that didn’t quite make it into your textbooks.     Imagine waking one morning and looking out your window. Your neighbor is dancing. At…

  • 📓 Notebook Pages #2

    Every story starts somewhere. Sometimes it’s a character. Sometimes it’s a line of dialogue. Sometimes it’s just one question that refuses to leave your mind. This one arrived as a single sentence in the Notes app on my phone. I don’t know the lighthouse keeper’s name yet. I don’t know what waits beneath the waves.…

  • Learning to Look Closer #2: Just Outside the Window

    My nephew was standing at the window this morning when a tiny robber fly flew up to the glass. For a minute, it almost seemed like they were entertaining each other. It would fly away, then come back again, hovering just long enough to catch his attention. Every time it returned, he lit up a…

  • Brain Static #1

    Before we begin… Brain Static is where all the wonderfully unnecessary thoughts go. The ones that show up at 2:17 in the afternoon for absolutely no reason. The questions nobody asked. The facts you didn’t need. The observations that make you stop and think, “Why is my brain like this?” So… I have a question.…

  • Between the Lines #1

    I wrote this before this blog ever existed. It was tucked away in one of my notebooks, waiting for the right place to live. I think it found that place here. Scars The gods always asked for sacrifices. Some were given lambs. Some were given daughters. I was given myself. No temple stood above me,…

  • Daily prompts

    If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? If I could erase one trend from history, it would be racism. I know it’s not the kind of “trend” people usually think of, but it’s a pattern that humanity has repeated for far too long. History is full of moments where people…

  • Sunday Things #1

    There’s something about Sundays that feels different. The week slows down just enough to catch its breath, and for a little while, everything feels a little quieter. This week wasn’t the easiest. A sinus infection and a stomach bug forced me to slow down in ways I didn’t want to. I missed work, spent more…

  • Notebook Pages #1

    Before we begin… Notebook Pages is where I’ll share the things that haven’t quite found a home yet—poems, story ideas, fragments, questions, and the words that end up in the margins before they become something bigger. Not everything I write is meant to become a finished piece. Some thoughts are complete exactly as they are.…

  • Some Days Just Ask More of You

    I’ve been sick since Monday. A sinus infection and a stomach bug decided to team up against me, so I spent a couple of days at home trying to recover. When I finally convinced myself I was feeling well enough to go back to work, my stomach had other plans. The morning was a blur…