As we come down to the last few days of the year, my thoughts circle more and more around what I want to accomplish in the 2023. I’m not alone
As a storyteller and someone who has studied folklore and history, I am a devotee of the idea that stories shape the world — both looking forward and looking backward.
For me, the idea of resistance is an important one. As someone who struggles constantly to cross the border from dreaming to accomplishing, being able to conceive of that the struggle as something external and inevitable is reassuring.
As much as I enjoy the process of composing a blog post, I love being able to engage with my past self when I reread it years later.
Fifteen years ago, I wrote a blog post about why blogging was important to me. I had been blogging on various platforms for about five years at that time and,