This was not the post I was intending to write. I was going to come on here and share a fun writing exercise and then do a(nother) movie review. Those things are coming, but this has been floating around in my head for a while and needs to come out first ( Read more... )

Tonight* was the biggest sporting event of the year for my college. The stadium was filled to bursting. Alumni traveled back to campus to cheer on our boys. And at the end of the night, we lifted high the trophy, victorious. A fantastic cap to my senior year ( Read more... )

cross-posted from my class blog

Death abounds in this section of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It opens with a flood that kills crops and animals and even people in other towns downriver, and then goes into a litany of various insect species eating their own kind. Or, offspring just don’t find what they need, be it an anchor hold in the ( Read more... )

This post, as modified from its original version to what you see here, was included in my 2013 Sophie Kerr Prize portfolio. It's, frankly, my favorite of the blog posts I included, and I have no doubt it helped propel me to finalist status. Please enjoy.

The blog entry I did for English class this week was about why I hate the Kindle (in essence ( Read more... )

Hey everybody! So, as you know, the 7th Harry Potter movie premiered last night at midnight, and my friends and I went to see it at the theater down the street from the school ( Read more... )

Remember my prom date? From my 4-H club? Well, he and his family had been wanting to take me to Friendly's as a thank-you thing, but we were both ridicuously busy this summer. So, instead, Derek and I had ice cream at their house, and we also watched a movie. Which movie, you ask? Left Behind

( For those unfamiliar... )

This is written for my friend. I doubt she'll read it, but I really hope she does.

She's started smoking, and I just can't figure out what to say to her to get her to stop. Because it can't sit here and do NOTHING, but you can't sound all cliche and such, and I don't want to alieniate her as a friend...

Anyway, poem.

( Smoke )