Leaving The Door Open

Keeping it Real Storytelling

  • A Different Kind of Fantastic Voyage

    A Different Kind of Fantastic Voyage

    “Those corpuscles carrying oxygen give the stream its color; the rest of the plasma looks very much like seawater” was one of the first comments made in the 1966 science fiction classic movie Fantastic Voyage after a team of scientists who are shrunk to microscopic…

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  • I Have A Tale to Tell

    I Have A Tale to Tell

    I have to share upfront that I am unabashedly piggybacking off of Vicki Atkinson’s post about the power of song and its cathartic abilities to…

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  • More Questions for Alice

    More Questions for Alice

    In 1972, I rode my bicycle to the library and checked out the book Go Ask Alice. There was buzz about it at school. It…

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  • Family Dreams

    Family Dreams

    My phone was lighting up again. It was about 3:00 a.m. My husband, Dennis, and I had told our son, Will, to text or call…

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  • Hiding in a Painting

    Hiding in a Painting

    I had finished weeding around the begonias in my grandfather’s garden as I did sometimes on Saturday mornings. I knew that he would be waiting…

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