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Virtual Writing Communities and How to Get Involved

"Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact...

Fiction in Reality: Creating a Protopia

As a lifelong reader, I have always been fascinated by the concept of fiction. Books, TV shows, movies: they all help us escape into a...

Where Humanity Thrives

How many times have you heard, “What a crazy world we live in.” in the last week? The last month? Or the last four months? I’ve said it...

A Single Candle

Sometimes, I feel empty. There are days I want to give in, let myself become a rag doll, so that I could somehow get some rest. I’ll lie...

Becoming a Better Listener

I’ve often been told that I’m a good listener, and while that is always my goal, I know I can improve. Recently, I truly realized that...

What Else is Contagious? [CHALLENGE]

It’s amazing how fast it spreads. It traveled around the world quickly, boomed in the media, and now it seems to be all I can think...

Opportunities to Learn

One of the best things about this stage of my life is how much I actually get to learn on a day-to-day basis. As a child, I always loved...

Closets of Memories

More than Memories. Among my family and friends, I am known for writing, reading, organizing, studying humans, loving goats, etc. In...

We All Struggle

“Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” -Charles Glassman So much of the human condition revolves around struggle....

The “Selfish” Mentality

We are almost two weeks into the new year, and for me, that is both an exciting and scary thought! On the one hand, I have already...

What’s Truly Important

It would be lovely to have money for college, or money for a nice house, a new car, a dog, a goat (or thirty), but having money like that...