A powerful narrative can pull us back into our lives with more awareness of what makes us human. When I was young, my stories were full of drama, devastating heartbreaks, overwhelming joys, and disappointments tinged with thoughts of suicide. Today, I see narratives in mundane things and in people I meet and imagine along the way.

During my adolescence,  I realized that spaces between the lines in the books I’ve read gave me access to the pauses in the writer’s mind, where their quintessence and my awareness merged.

These web pages contain  samples of my writing, discussions of other writers’ work and my efforts to put a big world into small words.

-Julie