Today We Choose

Twenty seven years ago today, an amazing and unthinkable thing happened - a terrible wall that separated a city, a country, and the world fell.  Families that had been divided for nearly three decades were reunited and a world torn apart by the Cold War began to feel a little more friendly and united. A...

Adversity, Adventure, and Some Other ‘A’ Words

I am running behind on the alphabetical posts for the Cauldron Blog Project, but since I'm one of the instigators of this year's event, I feel like I should make a belated effort at an 'A' themed post. Trigger warnings may be needed, as this will be a bit of a rant exploration dealing with...

Notes from the Coffee Shop: Choice and Denial

"I had no options." "I no longer had a choice in the matter." "What else could I do? All other avenues were closed to me." Phrases like these have been popping up a lot lately.  They're being uttered by people I know who are, to be quite frank, speaking in self-pitying tones about the various...