by designedconviction@gmail.com | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorised
Once upon a time there was a woman with wild hair and fire in her eyes. She lived in a little house built on the side of a mountain overlooking a crystal blue lake. In the morning she would wake up, brush the wild strands of sleepy hair behind her ear and listen for...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Feb 23, 2021 | Uncategorised
I’ll just read a couple of pages… That’s what I told myself when I picked up Bryan Stevenson’s book. For me, this would be the third time reading it. My Mom told me she and a group of friends were reading Just Mercy for their women’s...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorised
There might be hundreds of episodes of the Twilight Zone, but every year I see only one. I don’t know why. It finds me. Inevitably, I find myself sitting down, perusing the channels, and like a dark vortex that I wander around until I eventually fall in, I watch...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Feb 9, 2021 | Uncategorised
Snow. So strange for there to be snow. Lily’s foot crunched lightly into the colorless powder. Lily looked over her shoulder to confirm the mystery of snow in the summer. Behind her, a lush green meadow with sunbeams and blue skies. In front of her, the snowy...
by designedconviction@gmail.com | Feb 2, 2021 | Uncategorised
“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start” – Shel Silverstein The Raven – I saw him first. A loud clank on top of a metal roof. Clumsy and heavy. Usually the birds are much...
