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The Morning After

I. I am standing on a precipice, breathless with exhaustion and gratitude and surprise. After years of wrong turns and bad equipment and Road Closed signs and avalanches and misreading the map, I have not expected to ever find my way to the top. I am not so much afraid of heights as I amContinue reading “The Morning After”

Because You’re Young

When I first started working as the marketing and communications person at this Quaker elementary school (which has the good sense to still teach cursive handwriting), I was happy to be putting to good use almost a decade of skills in writing, research, social media, advertising and graphic design. At twenty-six, I felt like I’dContinue reading “Because You’re Young”