2021 Reading List: The Top 10 Books on TBR Shelf
Tsundoku Japanese word for the bookworm’s art: collecting untouched books like dust *** Avid readers have a habit of buying books faster than they can read them. As a result, […]
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People in A Story: How Book Characters Teach Us to Love Well
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more […]
Little Tree: An Ode to A Christmas Tree
[little tree] BY E. E. CUMMINGS little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest and were […]
The Giver: Choosing to Live In Color
“Sometimes I wish they’d ask for my wisdom more often–there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don’t want change. Life […]
Mothman and Mad Anne: Local Legends of Point Pleasant, WV
Local Legends: Mothman Last week, my brother and I went to visit Point Pleasant, WV with a few friends. Our goal was to visit the home of Mothman, one of […]
Kingdom of Discarded Words
A father sat scribbling away in his office. His desk light beat down upon the page and silhouetted his hunched form. Meanwhile, the rest of the room grew dim with […]
November Reading Prompt: Read an Opposite Worldview
“The only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings, is that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and joys […]
Learning to Empathize with Hedda Gabler
“It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.”― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler Reading a play […]