Being upside down can be fun – eating upside down cake and racing up, down and around on roller coasters. But what about those times when we feel that our lives have been turned upside down?

Georgia death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner was executed two weeks ago for her role in the killing of her husband. My friend Anne Elizabeth Swiedler stood vigil outside the state’s execution facility in Jackson during the final hours of appeal, denial and injection.

Stories, stories, stories, all intertwined, layered, connected.