Within one phone call and a technically-derailed interview, we became friends. There was an instant, easy familiarity between us that makes one think that certain connections are not happenstance.

What makes a superhero? Do they all have to encounter crisis, be shockingly injured, and from that wound arise with a strength that exceeds all other humans’ capabilities? If that is the definition of a superhero, then Patrisha Summerland is definitely a super hero.

There was promise upon arrival that Disney world was, indeed, the happiest place on earth. Enchantment began from the moment you parked your car.

I have always been a little unsettled by the concept of karma—it concerns me that every act could be dissected and repaid with the pinpoint, malicious efficiency of my departed Polish grandmother.

It really didn’t take a sign from above for me to recognize that we are living in a time of great change, but it is validating to get confirmation.

The world was our wild west. We were progenerated by the backcombed women of the 50s