Picture perfect, that’s what they say But upon reflection, nothing ever seems the same. A smile here, some windswept hair, Yet the moment isn’t really there. I don’t know why …
Hannah Van Essen
Bal des Ardents
By Hannah Van Essen Vibrancy was the word of the night: vibrant colors, vibrant music, vibrant women. The Hotel Saint-Pol was a place where reality became smudged, blurring the line …
Tattoos: What’s the Big Deal?
Every parent dreads the day that their precious 18 year old walks through the door with a painfully obvious tattoo, but what deeper issues does this disdain present before us? …
The Asylum
The woman next to me flinched, trying to cover her mouth before she coughed, but before I could look up, the doctor had already grabbed her shirt and pulled her …
Breakfast Burrito Basics
Breakfast today is much more than a meal: it’s an experience. Finding that trendy hole-in-the-wall that also serves great food can become quite a task. In search of just that, …
Agent 355
Benjamin had asked one thing of me: be invisible. I laughed when he said that because it was so seemingly hilarious, a woman be anything but invisible? But I guess …
An Extraordinary Life
Ralph G. Nichols said, “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” …
Simple Summers
I miss the simplicity of summers long ago, the days when we would catch butterflies with our broken purple nets. The times we built little cities and made up stories …