I bade my friend good-bye as I walked past the grocer’s loading dock, the carts of food left for trash for flaws of expiration dates, of cracks and dents, of irregulation and irreverence for the perfection held in such esteem by the forty-year-old manager unable to see past his automaton doors, his automaton life. Several [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Caleb took me to my old house today.
It was like paramnesia on auto-pilot. We pulled up the driveway, and I half expected him to slow down to avoid hitting the dogs that used to so often greet drivers. He didn’t.
We stepped up to the French doors. The routine of seven years gravitated my hand toward [...]
You know, it feels good to know you’re doing something right.
I know you aren’t supposed to let others define your self-worth, but that isn’t exactly easy when you’re a self-doubting adolescent surrounded by people constantly telling you what you’re doing wrong and never what you’ve done the right way. It creates this bubble of insecurity-you’re [...]
To Representative McKeon,
My name is Alexandra Coffin. I am a representative of the ICU Club at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita, CA.
You may or may not know of our cause. We are a dedicated group of kids focused on bringing peace to Uganda, Africa. Our ultimate goal is to end the civil war that [...]
Obviously, I have a thing for titling my blogs after Matthew Good songs. Smart man, he is.
Maybe it’s because he’s always right, kind of like a few other people in my life (You know who you are. After all, you’re always right).
There’s this thing called the Secret. We have a tendency to tell ourselves we [...]
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