Don't Move
Those thousands of slides and photographs have become more than a record of our lives. In many ways, they are what inspire these stories. I can pull out a slide I haven’t seen in decades and suddenly an entire world comes rushing back...

Those thousands of slides and photographs have become more than a record of our lives. In many ways, they are what inspire these stories. I can pull out a slide I haven’t seen in decades and suddenly an entire world comes rushing back...

Writing about my parents had given them a permanence that boxes never could. The stories preserved who they were, not simply what they owned. Their photographs, their humor, their kindness, their lessons—they were no longer hidden away in a storage u

I've come to believe that solitude and connection aren't opposites at all. One deepens the other. The quiet teaches me to pay attention; the people remind me why it matters.