By Michael Mish

Join me in this nakedly honest look into how we lose our innocence.

Throwing up my own life as an example of what probably happens to all of us, I strip away the masks and the beliefs to carefully inspect the grief, the shame, the disappointments, and the feelings of “not-enough”.  Under all of the societal layers lies an essential self that is too valuable to hide and too important not to share with the rest of the world.

I had forgotten what it feels like to become so engrossed in a story, to want the words to melt off the pages and seep directly into my soul. There are books I read, and then there are books I consume.

~Angela Stevenson