Hi! I’m Stephanie Benedict, and I appreciate your stopping by. I was inspired to start this blog, in part, because I was tired of all the tension and negativity out here on the web. Sometimes a girl just wants to get away from it all. It is here that I hope to carve out a place of light and beauty for myself, and if someone else finds it refreshing – then all the better!

I like to read a thoughtful book each morning during breakfast, and I’ll be sharing quotes and thoughts from those books. You might agree with them, or you might not. I might not agree with them! But I hope they will make us both think a little more deeply about the pertinent subject matter.

I’ll also share my own creative writing. I began writing when I was about 11 or 12, but always privately, for myself. While I was teaching my children about Ancient Greece (yes, we were homeschoolers) I was profoundly moved by their emphasis on beauty, truth and goodness; and what they have left to the world because of that pursuit.

I have come to believe that anyone who has any tiny spark of the creative life owes it to society to put it to good use. We need beauty; and we need truth spoken in ways that engender life; and we need things that are just plain good. In every sense of the word.

So you can say that the Ancient Greeks made me start this blog. Their example and their legacy is certainly why I have decided to move my writing into the public realm. I, too, want to leave something behind.

What I’d like to leave is a more beautiful, thoughtful, and truthful world than I have right now. Even if that world exists only between the covers of a book.