Bring Your Dreams to Life
My father had a book. The book was quite large and to untrained eyes it would appear as nothing more than an ancient grimoire. My father kept this disguised book hidden beneath a velvet-draped table. My sister and I discovered it the summer before third grade. Whenever we visited his theater, we would steal into […]
Head Alchemy
The time has come to get real. I know you see the little creatures that I create and the theatrical images I share, but few, I think, get what is really going on. The little creatures I create may seem like they’re for children, but they’re not. The creatures, muses and phantom imaginings that I […]
Chaos Theory
Chaos creates change. I write this because too many people believe that happiness comes from striving after perfection. Lives must be instagram-ready to be worthy. Yet, instagram-ready lives are rarely interesting. The biggest secret that truly well rounded people won’t tell you—unless they think you’re mentally ready for it—is that true happiness only comes once […]
Transcending the Dream
Dreams are like flames. Those of us who have been lured into their fiery embrace know the singeing our unsuspecting souls have endured as well as the transfiguring our very beings have undergone in their wake. At ten, my sister Poppy and I discovered a powerful Magic. At first, we were unaware of what the […]
Believe in the Dream of You
In a world where there are few things you can believe in, you have to learn to believe in yourself. You have to learn what makes you tick, what makes you get up in the morning, what makes you happy to be alive. You have to know what you’re good at—not just what you enjoy. […]
