Author: Keri Riggs

In a time when the news is often distressing or disturbing, life feels chaotic and unsettled and we recognize control is just an illusion - I'm reminded of one of my favorite quotes from a favorite character: Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. (Yes, I'm a...

I recently stumbled across this powerful quote by Orson Welles: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." So many examples of this came to my mind. That same weekend I'd been to the theater and saw Sondheim's "Into...

Many beloved books and movies have a theme of the mythical Hero’s Journey.  In a nutshell, the hero has specific gifts that he may or may not have discovered, but feels like a misfit and is often misunderstood (remember a certain reindeer and elf?)  He...