What joy is mine today! I get the pleasure of shining the spotlight on two dear friends, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.   As part of the Writers’ World Blog Hop, I’ll begin by introducing you to the (amazing!) author who tagged me. But my joy doesn’t stop there; at the end of this post, I get to point you in the direction of the (also amazing!) author who will compose the next installment, too! In between, I’ll...

We never had a first date. There was just that day when we met, and you helped me staple my backpack shut. Friendship, then best friendship, then this crazy awakening of hearts and a kiss beneath a streetlamp. …and the rest is history. Three years in after that kiss, we climbed a mountain and you knelt and I saw forever in those blue eyes of yours. We scribbled a note on a paper, put it in the time capsule mailbox, and you shouted to the...

…or… Arduous Journeys Fraught with Peril and Dirt-Throwing. A parched road stretches onward and upward before you, the sound of weary hooves plodding their way beneath you up the mountainside. Everyone with you is silent. Lost, no doubt, in the struggle inside of them—just like you. You’re soul-weary, strength-drained, and battling for breath through grief. If you can just keep going, just make it to the top of this...