I like surprises. Not the kind when people jump out at me from behind a hedge, but the kind like when a stranger starts a conversation, and I have no idea where we are headed. A couple of years ago in NYC, a gentleman with a garment bag sat next to me on a bench...

The Week 2 Harvest Prompt for the Autumn Salon Series: Reflect and write on learning something new, approaching something you have done before in a new way, and/or a time when you acted spontaneously. There may be a way in which both spontaneity and trying something...

The summer between my second and third years of college, I was working in Ketchum, ID. It was not my first time there. I loved the beautiful, small town feel as well as the hustle of needing more than one job to make enough money to live and save for school. That...