The Power of Personal Essays

How to tell your own and why we desperately need them

Photo by Sean Foster on Unsplash

I get this craving so deep it makes my blue-green bones ache. My mouth waters, and my ears ring a little. I feel like a child sneaking a nibble of something she knows is off-limits.

I don’t give in to this craving, except at gas station checkouts on random days in the summer and long road trips. I’m…