Slavery, the Magna Carta, and the American Presidency

Recently, I listened to discussion surrounding the restoration of slavery exhibits. Important work. Necessary work. But the conversation, while framed around exhibits and current politics, reaches fa…

I laughed when I typed the title of this piece.

Why I write this story? I cannot imagine not writing it.

My paternal grandmother, Helen Margaret Cain, and I were very close—especially during the first eight years of my life. I cannot remember a time wh…

I didn’t begin by asking what the fae are.

I began by asking when they entered the human imagination—and why, once there, they never truly left.

Humans are easy, in a way. Every culture has a creation story: breath over water, hands shaping clay, gods …

Why this line matters—and why their story opens the next realm

Before Ireland becomes a setting in Bone and Blood, before myth and memory begin to intertwine, there is a quieter question that deserves to be asked plainly:

Who are the Cains—and who are …

On lineage, belonging, and becoming

A name is often the first thing we are given—and one of the last things we fully understand.

It arrives before memory, before language, before choice. It is spoken over us, written into records, repeated until it fee…