For me, words like purple-hulled peas take me back to my grandmother, wearing a dress and apron, cooking in the kitchen. I cannot hear the word train without thinking about the long Saturday walks that my grandfather and I took up and down backcountry stretches of railroad. When I hear the word fishing, I recall the days my dad and I spent in a boat together. But other words can create worlds full of hurt, fear, and pain. What do we do with those? Many of us hide those words and the stories they...

In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll stated, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.” I think that quote is valid for a lot of people today, a lot more people than would like to admit it. Many people wish they could go where they see everyone else going, and many more struggle with listening to everyone around them telling them where they should go. Most people genuinely know where they want to go but struggle with fear, doubt, and the nagging belief that they don’...