Emrys Wren

I was born in 1956, the middle child in a family of five—my mother, father, older sister, younger sister, and me. We were a typical lower-middle-income household, not wealthy by any stretch, but we had what we needed. Life, for the most part, was content, even happy. Yet, for as long as I can remember, … Read more

Chapter 1: The Walled Garden of Silence (1950s-1960s) I arrived in a world that prized clamor, a world where children were expected to be miniature extroverts. But my earliest memories are not of boisterous playdates or crowded playgrounds. They are of dust motes dancing in sunbeams, the hushed aisles of libraries, and the quiet comfort … Read more

The world of an introvert mind.