I am thankful for a lot of things. I am thankful to be alive. I was reading The Week recently. The “World at a Glance” is never really sunshine and …
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United Through Traditions
Holiday tensions run high as each family prepares to host family or friends. Whether guests overstay their welcome or dinner arguments ensue, the holidays are sure to bring pressure. However …
Seeing Beyond Herself
By: Tiana Dovetko “But why do I have to go?” Finley wines as she walks down the stairs carrying another box almost full to the brim with soup cans. “They’re …
Note on “The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned” by Rachel Kadish
By: Ava O’Donnell I delighted in people-pleasing as a child. A confession like this would have paralyzed me eight years ago. Now I realize that I was only ever afraid …
The Mediation of Christmas
By: Ella Jenkins During a most wintry and trying time of year, the old English church became even more severe: The priest’s short nose, which steamed at empathy’s rose, …
The Only One
By: Hudson Dexter From the early hours of the morning To the setting sun of dusk I simmer and contemplate, almost mourning The world that I live in, a husk. …
A Meditation on Contemporary Music
By: MJ Pfaff The penitential slop has subsumed me; now I stand, inanimate and opacious as a block of tofu before this bowl of synthetic pulverized oat remnants and chemical …
The Dawn of Philophobia
By: Madeline Jenkins John Green said it best. ”love is keeping the promise anyways.” So you can waive your red flags while I close my eyes, Cause I’ll remove a …
The Temptation of Attachment
By: Ella Jenkins Pain is a funny thing. The human heart threads through itself many strings. I suppose it’s our fault, then, To feel attachment like one should know …
Halfway
2 years gone, I’m halfway done.. the clock ticking fast, in a blink of an eye precious moments, slipping away… time passes, just as childhood had done the halls …