I was thrilled about two of my favorite artists releasing new music in the same month. This was the same day you came up to me, knowing about my excitement. Of course you were also excited, we have the...

Sylvia Plath screams in my head. Her voice is shrill and ripped raw, cracking and weak as she repeats the same two words from her parched lips. It’s so deafening that I wince. “Fig tree.” Everything...

Author’s note: I am writing this because my sister is going to the grade I was when this story happened. This vignette was written just to share my story and get my thoughts onto a page. Each year about...

I transport myself back in time as I close my eyes.  My family and I are driving along the road, as the sun sets over the horizon, with endless blue stretching beyond the palm trees lining the coast. ...

For months, I’d been looking forward to my sister picking me up from high school, like she used to when I was in elementary school and she was in high school. I’d always thought eventually I’d be...

you’re your own person, love should make you feel good, your friends should treat you with kindness, you don’t need others validation, just your own, it’s okay to be alone sometimes, appreciate...

to my sister, if i had a million words to describe my sister there are many things that come to mind generous, kind, empathetic, caretaker, everything she is, i am not   to my sister   from...

they say that grief comes in waves they were right i’m drowning in the waves crashing over my body    the first wave was denial this wave crashed over my body and made me numb so numb my...

there’s something so incredibly remarkable about the Junk of a Drawer  there’s one bound to be found in any room in a home almost anywhere the lengths that some go to hide it from your curious...

Sometimes you can't look back. Sometimes you can't even look where you're at right now. The battles and challenges, the hardships and illnesses, the bad relationships and friendship blow ups make us look...

when a rose dies it happens slowly and then all at once  dead  our friendship was like a dying rose  slowly  and then all at once  dead  when a rose is bloomed it is beautiful our...

“Broken”  you can water a plant even when it’s dead but the reality is it won’t ever be the same again  you can glue back together a broken plate but the reality is it won’t ever be the...