We are told to put on our own oxygen mask before helping others in case of an emergency. It is a logical step, but is hard to remember in...

When we are little we colour outside the lines. Life is abstract, so we splash colour everywhere, never considering what the rules are....

Just think of the distance, from here, to there. It’s simply a space, filled with matter, and air. It may not be much, or seem much, if...

When I was a kid, my dad put a giant welding helmet on me so I could safely watch a total eclipse of the sun. It sat heavily on my tiny...

Give yourself a year and you can change your life. Not much looks like it did a year ago. It has been a full year since I made a bold...

I forget a lot of things lately, like walking into a room and not remembering why. I used to use the mnemonic device ROY-G-BIV to help...

"I have trouble processing information, and doing routine tasks. It is hard to navigate personal situations, and read social cues. If I...

The wind whispers, “come with me.” I dash off to dance like a prairie fire. Creative sparks feed the flames. Imagination runs wild. Free....

"We need to shatter our snail shell shackles and start to really live again." Life seems linear in a lot of ways, but that’s the macro...

I couldn’t have written this last week because I felt like I was in quicksand. Can anyone else relate? There are so many problems facing...

Are they the ties that bind us to each other? Do they keep us tethered to life, until they release us into the hereafter? I have...

I almost died when I was seven. My family jokes about it, the way you can joke when the person lives to tell the tale. It was a real...

Due to personal reasons, I will be shining brightly and unapologetically for the foreseeable future. There is enough room for all the...

I’m a wild girl with fast feet in waist high grass that hisses as it bends. The brisk breeze catapults the crafty creature I am chasing,...

Tears sprung from my eyes and streamed down my cheeks like the water cascading over the rainbow rocks in the pictures I’d just purchased....

By what measure do you quantify your existence? There is nothing that makes anyone worth more, or less than anyone else. Nothing defines...

Do one thing every day that scares you…I disagree with this sentiment. I’ve often heard this sort of thing. It is usually attached to...

Earlier this year I had a total tech meltdown. There is no worse feeling than the “memory full” warning message popping up on your...

On a beach in Costa Rica, I witnessed the fragile and miraculous journey of life’s ups and downs in a 30-foot journey down a sandy sunset...

“I told you that I love you, right?” It was more of a mental check mark on his final to do list than a question. My grandpa and me 1972...