The Girl Made For Someplace Else

It’s a warm, sunny day in spring, the sky is speckled with clouds on the horizon. A cool breeze shifts through the tree branches above a small group of people, gathering together for a picnic on the grass. There’s an unspoken, almost tangible magic that can be felt by all. I can see a floral…

She is one-of-a-kind, with a sweet natured soul, and magnetic energy. She is everyone’s best friend and the life at every party. She makes time for brunch, lunch, coffee dates and happy hour. Her rides to work are never silent. She is either talking to her mom on the phone or singing off-key to extremely…

The last thing she said to me was, “I’ll see you tomorrow.” But “tomorrow” never came. She was gone before I woke up. I was angry. Why couldn’t she wait for me? I would have never left the hospital that night if I had known it was her last. But then I realized, Shyra always…

The sky was dark, with ominous clouds shutting out the last hint of sunshine. The street was quiet, except for tiny droplets of water dancing across the pavement in random patterns like pinballs in a 1940’s arcade machine. I wasn’t prepared. The weather forecast deceptively said clear skies. I could barely make out the bus…

I woke up to the sound of sirens deafening, bright lights shining, I was breathing in an oxygen mask, and the most gorgeous men I had ever seen were leaning over me with such care and compassion! Why are paramedics all so beautiful, I thought. One of them held my hand and the other was keeping…

It was the morning of May 5th, 1988, and the bustling about the “mansion home”, as we called it, was filled with joy and anticipation. I was 6 years old. I could feel the love in the air as my parents prepared for the birth of their 3rd child. We were home on “furlough”, just…

The rhythmic clatter of the steel train wheels came to an abrupt stop, jolting each passenger forward slightly, and then back. They all exchange questioning glances towards one another as if to say, “Why did the train stop? Could it be? Have we arrived?”  There’s a stillness in the air, a silence of nature. This…

I know you’re thinking of the action packed 2016 Emily Blunt thriller, but let’s reset your focus as you join me in reading a story about a girl you will never forget …  I’d like you to take a moment and picture a blue-eyed, rosy cheeked, silhouette of a girl with long chestnut brown wild…