• Deep Calls to Deep

    It was the end of a long day and I’ve used up all potentially productive words before dinner, and I was driving across town in the dark to a Bible study I’d never been to. I’d been looking for one a while now. A women’s Bible study, specifically, something regular, something I could grow roots…

  • Same Woman, Two Places

    I went on a first date once, a few years ago, with a man who looked very good on paper. He was a man of God. Emotionally mature, by every account. Available. Kind. Stable. I didn’t know much beyond that, and I don’t imagine he knew much more about me. We’d had maybe three phone…

  • Talking To My Shadow

    I was 10 when I gave my life to Christ, and I had no idea what it would do to my house. My mother found out quickly. And she decided, almost immediately, that her new mission in life was to make sure I wasn’t “brainwashed.” That was her word. Religion, in her mind, was an…

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Meet The Alchemist

I read more than is probably reasonable and keep trying to fit one more bookshelf into my living room. It’s a battle I’ve mostly accepted.

I ended up becoming the family’s “black sheep” who pursued medicine instead of the arts everyone in my family seemed to wander into. Somewhere between pharmacology and theology, I found myself gathering more degrees than I intended. “The Alchemist Chronicles” acknowledges the lineage: those of us who measure powders as heirs to medieval practitioners who eventually became known as “pharmacists.”

I live what I consider an abundantly vibrant life. I’m told that If an exclamation point was a person, it would be me. I dance, teach, draw, lift, explore, play, and regularly disappear into a Dungeons & Dragon campaign. If there’s a hobby that exists, chances are I tried it at some point. At home, I have a pet snake named Tiamat and I’m a single mom to a brainy kiddo I’m profoundly proud of. My heart is full, as is my plate.

My aim is simply to leave a record of where I have been, what I have noticed, and why it mattered to me. If that resonates with you as well– welcome to this corner of the internet.