I’m grateful for… Villains. I love my antagonists. They know what they want, and they get it done. Their resourcefulness and cunning makes narratives stronger. These larger-than-life entities would just as quickly topple a royal family using shadow magic as they would dismantle a Jedi Order. Good and evil can be vivid. As vivid as…

I’m grateful for… Endings. Summers used to go by so fast for me, until this one. Three months of both healing and heartbreak. Mending and tearing the fabric of grief. Joy like I haven’t known in almost a decade. Already, I grieve as leaves land across my windshield as I drive through my city. It…

God has a sense of humor. Maybe even a disappearing act. I think they are there, and then they vanish. But they leave behind a trail of books, plus a few clues on where to find the next chapter. But sometimes, I don’t find them funny. It’s not funny when things don’t go according to…

I got sick in 2017. I’ve gotten familiar with hospital beds, the beep of a heart monitor, the loudness of an MRI, the spiciness of anesthesia in my blood, the heartache of an echocardiogram, and eight years of nights and mornings obeying a pillbox. And I know the panic of when healthcare doesn’t arrive at…