Life
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Dear Diploma
Dear Diploma, My mom says that on my very first day of school, I cheerfully told her goodbye and walked into the building, eager to learn and happy to be there. She says that while a few kids were crying and most were unwilling to go in, I didn’t look back. Now, on my very Continue reading
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How My Cat’s UTI Sorted Out My Priorities
I bet the first thing you thought of when you read the title was this: Best part in Harry Potter I. But I digress. Tonight, I took my cat, Gypsy, to her vet and found out that she has a urinary tract infection. She had been showing symptoms for weeks: peeing on clothes left on the Continue reading
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The Last Six Weeks of College: The Survival Instinct and The College Student’s Hierarchy of Needs
Long before our ancestors transitioned to being farmers, they were hunters and gatherers who moved throughout the land as they followed their migrating food. The wild was a dangerous place, and living to see the following day was considered an accomplishment. Typically, surviving the elements, disease, and predators was a feat only achieved by relying Continue reading
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The Day I Realized I Can’t Save The Whole World
It’s official. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. That’s not true. I’ve wanted to be an author since I was four years old, and I knew I was cut out to be one since I was eight and started writing short novels. I love to write, live for it. Continue reading
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Going For It
I have been thinking about the future a lot lately. When I say future, I’m not talking about it in general terms as a sustainability major should. Instead, I’m rather selfishly thinking of my own future and what it holds for me. More specifically, I’m thinking about grad school and the rest of my undergraduate Continue reading
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Drunk Drivers, Hurtful Words, and Humans in General
My big sister was in an accident with a drunk driver the other night. She had a green light and was passing under a freeway when an old Ford came out of nowhere and flew in front of her. She was able to slam on the brakes in time to hit the back end of Continue reading
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Early Mornings, Life, and Moving On
I have had trouble sleeping recently, but this morning’s restlessness came from quite another source than the unclear reasons that have been making it difficult for me to fall asleep and stay asleep. Today I think I was subconsciously remembering the awful news I had woken up to yesterday. When I awoke around four this Continue reading
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Ode to My Horse Ring
Like all my stories that I post on this blog, I will try to weave in some sort of life lesson or message into this particular narrative. However, this story may be one of those tales that is told purely for the sake of being told. When I was roughly fourteen, my mom bought for Continue reading
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Joe and McKenzie – A Story of Near Suicide and Friendship
After I wrote down Tyler’s story a few days ago, I decided to tell another tale of mine that also contains a powerful message, one I fear bears relevance to today. This incident took place when I was in the 6th grade, a few months after my family had moved from Arizona to California. I Continue reading
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Tyler’s Story
The other day I was going through random piles of junk in my room when I found one of my old songbooks under my keyboard. Upon opening it, I revisited the stories behind so many lyrics I had written between the ages of twelve and seventeen. (I have not written any songs on my piano Continue reading
Shorts and Snippets 