topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris   Listen to the Story! When I first went to South America I was traveling on a huge truck that had been painted blue and refitted to carry gap-year travelers across the continent, spending their parents’ money […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! It was the summer of my second year at university and I had four long months looming ahead of me. In search of freedom, I did what any university student would do- given […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! As the first notes of the national anthem piped through the still, warm air she shifted her weight from one foot to the next, an attempt to take the pressure off the balls […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “On the Road”

topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “New Frontiers”

topic: MONOGAMY medium: TEXT This story was the winner of the “Monogamy” contest Get to know Becky better by going Behind the Story I huddled by the rock, the late October sun struggling to remove the morning’s chill.  I leaned my head back and let the sun’s paltry warmth fall […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “On the Road”

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Standing over the bridge on Puerto Madero I felt I was sailing. The bright sun and the seemingly effortlessly elevated bridge suspended me, the rippling water, the cool-constant breeze the blue of the sky tempered by the grey of the harbor. In my airborne […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Well, I’m a romantic.  I guess I believe in true love, as dumb as that sounds.  It’s all about finding your soul mate.  The qualities that each of us look for will vary from person to person obviously.  But, in general, they are…well…the counterpart to your […]