This is the untold love story of Ariel’s daughter, Melody. 

Part mermaid, part human, she’s spent the years after schooling at the kingdom back in the water to rediscover her mermaid heritage. She wanted to know the side of her that sang the sirens call. While she was under the sea she met a lord of the deep sea. He attended a meeting with her grandfather, Triton. He was dark, mysterious, and ruled over the darkest sea. She was immediately enthralled by the question of him. She’d always had a spirit of wonder and found that piece of him, the void, enchanting…

Three flights, three trains, two metro, six buses, and a taxi ride later we made it to Italy. It was late, we had no idea where we were, no cell service, and nobody spoke English. At that point we’d been traveling for over 30 hours, and we were in desperate need of a shower, but […]

When I was in high school, we had service days- no surprise. Ask any Christian school kid and they will understand. Usually you go to a different place every year, but by happenstance I ended up at the same place twice: the Habitat for Humanity Restore. It’s basically a place that you can take unused house […]

For college students, rest is pretty unheard of, let alone for graduate students such as myself. Rest is such a  big thing that in the world of pharmacy there are multiple categories of sleeping and depresive medications to help patients achieve just that. I purposely said rest instead of sleep because I- like many I know- can […]

The one game that seems to follow each generation is ‘hide and go seek’. It was fun when I was a kid because there were more places to hide, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve found myself being ‘it’ because I’m too easy to find. The rules can change, but the point of the game usually […]