Love as a Verb

While we were making dinner together on our first date, I confessed that I was nervous, in part because I knew that your ability to see me so clearly meant that you were capable of devastating me. Later on, we told each other that it was okay if we broke

Dancing on Holy Ground

My sister's brain was damaged by a case of meningitis, a swelling of the brain and spinal cord that came out of nowhere when she was eleven and I was nine. When I was ten years old, I'd often lie awake late into the night, sweating, wondering if I'd notice