My Own Yellow Wallpaper

I use the word community a lot for a person who doesn’t have a great definition for it. It’s more of a feeling in my bones than something I...

  sun sets across the mountain hues of pink and orange the end of a day’s light a wick wet with oil rests between fingers of a gold...

Encouraging my teenage students to be in tune with and celebrate their home culture is something akin to what I imagine it’d be like to cal...

With hair like mine, I didn’t wash it myself until I was nearing adulthood. Hence, the scene: a head full of shampooed curls and my mother ...

A while back I got to sit down and record a conversation with my granny. I'm so lucky to still have her to tell her stories to me. The...

When you move away it’s always hard to pick and choose what events warrant a six-hour round trip and someone always thinks you should’ve co...

Shriveled red peppers cling to their plants, still standing in frozen ground. The starkest contrast of life and death, warmth and cold. We d...

I live in a red county in a state that is blue thanks only to it's proximity to the capital. I sponsor the Diversity Club in a school wh...

   We left for our anniversary trip last Thursday and stopped over in Williamsburg for delicious sandwiches at The Cheese Shop . We, of ...

Most of June was low-key for us. No big plans or trips but now it's July and things are shaking up. We spent this past weekend in Luray,...

Our garden has grown into quite the beautiful creature lately. We have had lots o' lettuce and spinach and soon will have tomatoes. We...

Last night we headed to Floyd with a few of our friends. They have a " Friday Night Jamboree " every Friday where people come and ...

Drew and I just returned from an amazing short weekend only a short hour drive up the road. I saw a flyer at the Blacksburg Community Center...

Clearly I have neglected this thing since starting work but as I told my aunt when she asked about it: payroll is not very exciting to blog ...