If there is one essay I wish I could read again from high school, it would be the open-ended essay question from my AP Language Arts exam. The prompt was to write about something we thought was overrated. I wrote about the concept of normality. Now, I don’t remember what I argued back then with […]
I think in a very literal fashion. I understand sarcasm and irony, but I will miss their uses, especially if I don’t have spoken tone to assist me. When people ask me a question, they are usually not asking me that question but instead an entirely different question that I am supposed to infer from […]
I always questioned the concept that love finds us when we least expect it. But I think the statement intends to say more about our openness to life and what it has for us rather than refusing to think about being in a relationship at all. If you aren’t open to a relationship, you won’t […]
I’m mad. I’m not mad. I’m happy. I’m sad. I exist. I feel like doing everything. I feel like doing nothing. I am an overworked, under maintained machine. I am spewing my guts, my gears and bolts, the things that make me tick, to make room for new things because the old ones never stick. […]
Miguel and Luisa were lovely people. Mr. and Mrs. Turcotte knew that. They knew how kind Miguel and Luisa had been in caring that they had food. They hadn’t been able to have any children. They had no one to help them make food once the prices rose astronomically in the fast food restaurants and […]
I read somewhere that people often forget the full story of the Greek myth of Icarus. For those of you who don’t know, Icarus was the son of an inventor. One day, he asked his father to help him fly, so his father crafted him a pair of wings. His father warned Icarus that if […]
I am an absent presence, festering in my comfortable misery, feeling alone in a room full of people. I am a wise fool, full of knowledge and excessive thoughts, all of which leads me to further ruin. I am a living sacrifice, surviving so that others can live happily, so that they can believe it’s […]