I think the first thing to know about me is I often find that I don’t quite fit—which used to cause me such agony. Now it’s something I embrace. If only I could go back and tell the younger me, “it’s all going to turn out for the best.” I grew up in a small town in Idaho (my father was a potato farmer) and I loved music, art, writing, and classical literature. These things on their own are not completely at odds with each other. However, it was difficult to imagine myself out on the moors with Heathcliff, my beating teenage heart so vulnerable. My love for him, like Cathy’s, “resembled the eternal rocks beneath,” but in reality, I had to own up to the fact that my love for him really resembled the eternal potatoes beneath. The moors were not mooring but desert and sagebrush. I dreamed of being a close friend and confidant to the women I truly admired, with their ability to write while expressing such emotion and truth. I wanted to be one of the Brontë sister’s but I inevitably would end up back on the school bus not with an Anne, Charlotte, or Emily but with Shasta, Marlene, and Kip.

Another thing that you should probably know is that I can’t make up my mind. So, after completing high school I studied music at Idaho State University, but after a few years I changed to English. Really, this website is (in a funny way) a reflection of my stubborn indecisiveness. I want to do it ALL.  And for someone that doesn’t quite fit and that won’t give up on what she loves, I’m not GOING to decide. This is a home for all of it, and a home for those that love it ALL, too. Enjoy.

Love,
Emily