The Sophia Project

I sat at a stoplight, in the rain, at dusk, when I finally admitted to myself out loud that I didn’t want to have children. I was 35 years old and couldn’t ignore the truth any longer. Alone in my car, I felt the great burden of a secret lifted off my shoulders. For years, [...]

I lived in Minnesota for four years. As a native Southerner, the first question most people asked me when I moved back home was, “So, how were the winters?”. Winter in Minnesota is difficult to describe. It must be experienced. It’s not just the cold. It’s the sheer depth and breadth of cold, the weeks [...]

When I was little, I spent a lot of time in my bedroom, alone. My family lived in a small-ish split level house in a 1970’s era subdivision. The walls were thin and the floors, creaky. Privacy was at a premium. After a long day of public school education, I came home with a primal, [...]