Dublin 873 C.E. Mist was rising off the water in soft clouds as they docked in Dublin early that morning. Five weeks at sea with only a few stops and all of Ingrid’s crew was ready to stretch their legs, find a meal, maybe a woman, and a bed for a few hours. First, though, ...

Trigger Warning: The following article discusses Eating Disorders, calorie counting, and mental health.   I come from a family of southern cooks. When I asked my mother for an Easy-Bake Oven, she told me, “Adele, that thing is a light bulb in a box. If you want to learn, I’ll show you how a real ...

Break it down, get up on tiptoe, keep smiling. Breathe, stretch, extend and then go further. Feel the rhythm, melody, moving through you. She must be weightless. She must be delicate. Then she must be strong. Step, plie, fly. There is no room for error. It’s amazing how much dancing feels like a fight. He’s ...

Trigger Warning: The following article discusses mental health and depression. According to the ADAA, Major Depressive Disorder affects more than 16.1 million American Adults. But when you’re in the middle of a depressive episode, you feel like you are the only person in the world. I have been fighting depression since my early teens, but ...

The previous issues can be found at my author page here. The force that caused the windows to shatter hit us like a brick wall. I got slammed off the couch and went straight into the coffee table. My head ached from the impact. Pulling my arms down from protecting my face, I saw blood ...