Andrea Cooley Creative Services

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of [...]

on tuesday nights i go to prisonbefore you start jumping to conclusions, let me explainwhen i was a student at Drake i took a community writing class in which the class spent a semester going to a nearby women’s prison and writing with the inmates. it was an experience that led me to writing a [...]

My eyesChocolate browndeep and roundmy eyesreveal my thoughtsexpress my feelings without my permissionlook into my eyesdark brownalmost blackorbs into my very soulwhat do you see? what do they see? my eyesdo they hold you in a trancemesmerizing, silencingperceptive, compassionatemy eyesfull of life, feeling, love, questionsknowledge, hurt, understanding, laughtermy eyes

i save words—cards, books, magazines, e-mails, hand-written notes and newspaper clippings. words are my life. i have always been a social person. i don’t have any problem chatting with friends for hours on end and at the end of the day, when i’m alone or missing them dearly those moments and those words are what [...]

“A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is teh fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or teh food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.”
–C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
How [...]