I Went “Real Life” on a Trauma-Induced Reccurring Dream and Lived to Write About the Experience — I find myself in my childhood home. It must be summer because the sun is beaming into my bedroom, hot and bright. I'm standing in the hallway. I must be 12 years old because my hair is cut into a blunt bob, and I am supposed to be doing chores…

Expressing My Gratitude the Long Way — I want to give thanks for my honorable mention in the Medium Writers Challenge. But first, I want to tell you a story about rocks, gratitude, and shared happiness. Edie and Me I have a beautiful friend named Edie, and together we were the rocker chicks of Northern Arizona. …

Sometimes we find community in unlikely places — So, I have a strange little hobby. — I actively search thrift stores for vintage and antique books with names written in them and attempt to reunite the book with descendants of the original owner. Who doesn’t love a good old-fashioned genealogical puzzle? I, for one, do Recently, I was…

The questionable 1929 disappearance and lonely death of one of California’s wealthiest women — Edith Irene Wolfskill was born in California in May of 1872. Her parents were well respected, and wealthy California pioneers named John and Susanne Wolfskill (Nee Moore). Edith, the youngest Woflskill child, was an only daughter. She had two brothers named Nay and Matt. John Wolfskill came to California in…

His California murder spree spanned two terrifying decades and left a trail of missing children who may never be recovered. — Each day millions of people travel California’s freeways, seemingly unaware they are driving over graves. One man abducted between six and 22 children between 1953 and 1971, disposing of most of their bodies beneath our highways. The First

A 17-year-old homecoming queen from Redlands, California, shot to death by an unknown bandit turned murderer — Lucky. That’s how James Sloan Jr of Redlands, California must have felt when the object of his affections agreed to go with him to a Palm Springs Rodeo as his date on February 7, 1948. Her name was Marjorie Lee Winn. Margie was a 17-year-old high school senior. She was…