One more step, I tell myself. And every step requires tremendous effort. As I walk through the forest, my feet sink into the Earth. ~*~ This is where I was just over a decade ago: I am climbing a mountain in Maunawili, an area on the island of O’ahu. I laced up my shoes ahead… Continue reading To Struggle or Sink
The summer of 2021 brought me home again. After more than a decade, I would move back into the only constant childhood home I knew. I hadn’t lived with my grandparents since high school; it’d been longer still since I’d lived with my mother. Now, at twenty-eight I traveled over 2,000 miles to move in… Continue reading A Return Home, Again
