Begin again.

I might have cried, but for the moon and for the thought of you tracing the places we once had been, the person I had promised you I’d be.~ from Journey: a traveler’s notes by William Sulit and Beth Kephart On the flight home to Texas, you realize just how long it’s been. Since you’ve …

Q&A with Beth Alvarado, author of Jillian in the Borderlands

“…bones could sing, she knew, and if she drew them in pictures, she would give them back their voices.” ~ from Jillian in the Borderlands by Beth Alvarado One of my favorite books is Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating with the Dead: a writer on writing, in which she writes a page and a half of reasons …

Guest Post: Donna Miscolta on Why I Write

In this Sunday Series, you’ll meet writers new and seasoned as they share what inspires them to put #PenToPaper. This week, welcome Donna Miscolta, who writes on finding her voice. Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash I once wrote an essay called “Can’t You Talk, Girl?” They were the words said to me when I was ten. Said …