Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.