My eyes were taking it in, but my brain was utterly undone by something I had no real context for.

“They look like Dr. Seuss flowers!” So declared my 10-year-old upon seeing the rows and rows of dahlias at the Meijer Gardens Dahlia Show in

A few years ago, when pain felt like it was destroying me from the inside out, undoing my very being—physical, mental, and spiritual—I started to

The traveler stopped at a spot in the road and looked around. No book or map or phone to guide. Just a memory of words