Morning walks (or sometimes jogs) are habitual for me during our short Wyoming summers. I love and take advantage of the outdoors when the weather doesn’t feel like it’s trying to kill me – which is less than half the year around here. Recently, on one of those routine walks, I came across a perplexing…
I love those chance moments when I stumble upon treasure. That’s what happened for me with Elizabeth Kostova’s The Shadowland. The novel was a random grocery store sale purchase, by my husband (because he loves me and supports my book habit). Until this book, I didn’t know about this expert storyteller’s work. From the introductory…
This past spring, I attended an event educating the public on sex-trafficking and its devastating effect. Throughout the event, and among the various speakers, a phrase was repeated over and over: “healing isn’t linear.” The concept seems simple enough. After all, we’re discussing victims of intense trauma and violence. Encouraging the public and potential care-givers…