Invocations, Love Letters, Perlocutionary Acts

Tag: creativenonfiction

  • Discovering the Meaning of ‘Religion’ and ‘Spirit’ as a Child

    Discovering the Meaning of ‘Religion’ and ‘Spirit’ as a Child

    I feel like sharing stories surrounding religion and spirit in my life. I remember being in elementary school in the 2nd grade, where most of my classmates were Mormon, and a boy in our class started from one end of the lunch line to the other as he individually asked “Are you Mormon?” and if […]

  • 50° in Suburbia

    It’s about 50° outside today, here in suburbia of Austin Texas. The skeletons of the trees declare themselves steady against the silver-gray sky, as if we are in the center of a cloud. No blue. No yellow. Just smoke and siren heard faintly in the distance. A plane makes it’s way, invisible and overhead. My […]