Storytelling at the crossroads of Story, Soul, and remembrance.
Once, people lived closer to the dark…
They sat together in winter, when the nights were long and the fire was the only light, and they told stories. Not just to entertain. Not just to fill the silence. But because story was how they made sense of things too large and too frightening to name directly.
They told stories about death so they wouldn't have to say I am afraid of dying. About loss so they wouldn't have to say I don't know how to carry this. About the one who enters the dark forest and emerges changed — so that when the forest came for them, as it always does, they would know: no one dies there.
We emerge. We always emerge.
My grandmother told stories from memory. Never from a book.
Her mother had told them to her, and her mother's mother before that — women passing something hand to hand across centuries, in the dark, by firelight.
I grew up inside those stories. I didn't always know what they were for.
I know now.
Ravensong is a home for that kind of work.
Paths through Ravensong
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Breath & Bone — Myth, Folklore & the Unseen
For the ones who feel the weight of old stories and want to understand why. Folklore, ghosts, ancestral memory, and the myths that never stopped being true. The stories that lived in the bones of the world long before we did — and still do.
Between breath and bone, the old stories rise.
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The re:Membering Project — Grief & Renewal
For those who have been through something hard and are trying to figure out who they are on the other side of it. A space for re:Membering yourself when you are feeling lost
You don't have to be finished to begin.
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Mike & Irmgard — Dementia Caregiving, Honestly
For caregivers doing it the hard way. For the caregiivers who have survived, and for the people who want to understand what that actually means. Because of Irmgard, we take dementia advocacy personally.
Named for Mike and Irmgard. You'll meet them inside.
If this work resonates and you need someone who writes with this kind of care — for your organization, your project, your voice — I'm available.
🪶 Meet Martina
I have been telling stories since before I knew that's what I was doing.
My grandmother told them to me from memory — no books, just her voice and the particular way she held the dark at bay with words. Her mother had done the same. I grew up thinking that was just what stories were for.
I spent years on the edges of creativity — studying it, teaching it, organizing it, supporting it — because I wasn't sure I was allowed to claim it for myself. I completed an MA and all my PhD coursework in literature. I wrote a thesis on women whose stories were told by others.
I'm claiming it now.