Prelude

January - Icon Realm - Senior Year

It was January. The weather was warm—eerily so.  My father and I were standing on the roof of his theater. It was not the one in Cratersville. This was his other home. The one that suited his style best. Why we didn’t end up here in this big city of lights instead of the sleepy […]

Rainbow Power

Letters to Earth - Rainbow Peace Sign with Hearts

In this post I want to write about the power of love. When societies become divided, love is in short supply. One reason for this phenomena, I believe, is because instead of seeing each other as human beings with unique stories, we start viewing each other as caricatures, representative of ideas we either immediately like […]

Playing the Long Game

Game of Life - Fortune Teller

My sister, Poppy, and I loved playing cards. The fact that our father was a renowned magician both on stage and in real life probably pre-disposed us to our abiding interest. The first game we played, though we really weren’t trying to play one at the time, was guessing the reaction on our father’s face […]