Author: arkaydee

“And when you are feeling lost in any way, remember that the home in your heart will guide you.”   ONE. I don’t remember if it was a tweet I read or a YouTube video I watched, but I do remember that the writer, John Greene, had explained he never…

Without knowing it, my sustainability journey started in June 2016.  I had just moved countries and was forced to consolidate three “closets” (my fall/winter clothes, my spring/summer clothes, and all the clothes that were still in my old room in my mother’s house).  I knew that trying to keep that…

Brenda always thought keeping a box of shameful memories and whispering cowardly and terrible thoughts into the dark was healthy. The straight jacket thought otherwise.

“Your stupid potion doesn’t work. She’s off dancing with someone else,” Andrew handed Elya the bottle. “This isn’t the potion. You gave her love poison!”

In an envelope within an envelope found in the black flap of a leather bound journal that is kept in a special case, buried beneath piles of clothing is a picture. Black and white. The girl, beautiful with a silver chain around her head. The boy, not one to be…

“It’s like a break in the clouds on a gloomy day,” Peg said. “It warms you, makes you smile, and life is worth living.” “You say that because you are an optimist.” Dino took another sip of what was likely to have been the thousandth cup of coffee on the…

There’s a brain in here, a heart, a person who puts a lot of soul in daily to-dos. There are random rambling thoughts and raw pure emotions. There are quiet sighs and silent prayers. There are all the things you will never see if you don’t stop and bother. And…

Does it unnerve you that I know how to sit with your silence; that when your world is void of noise, I can still hear? Does it unsettle you that I see right through the walls; that where others have walked away, I stand still? Have you come unhinged yet?…