So, I'm back from outer space! Get that sad look off of your face ( Read more... )

So.

I dyed my hair red. Not, you know, that nice, natural red that everyone envies and that is slowly disappearing from the gene pool. It's closer to the color sported by Ariel of The Little Mermaid. And, well, I love it. I promise to upload pictures as soon as I can figure out how to do so. My computer refuses to recognize the USB port of my ( Read more... )

( Amazing )

Don't kill bugs... they have feelings, too, you know.

"A Considerable Speck" by Robert Frost, from The Poetry of Robert Frost. © Henry Holt and Company, 1969. Reprinted with permission.

A Considerable Speck
(Microscopic)

A speck that would have been beneath my sight ( Read more... )

Sports entries are boring. I hate to admit that to athletes, but it is the truth; no one wants to know if you broke your personal record or came in forty-second place. But, alas, I find myself writing about my first cross-country race. I kept up with a girl who is my pace; I could have done better, I know, but it was ninety-five degrees, muddy, and ( Read more... )

Cross country has this odd ability to make you forget how to breathe. I think that I might have asthma; the humidity does not help matters. Yes, friends, I have begun cross-country practice. It is an absolute hell when you are actually running but, afterward, you feel as if you could do anything. We practiced hills yesterday. There are two very ( Read more... )

Okay, so, firstly, I would like to apologize for not posting in a week. It was very bad of me to leave you to your daily lives without my musings on Sherlock Holmes and teenage romance. Secondly, I would like to apologize for coming back. I am kidding, of course, as I would stop typing if I were truly sorry. But, enough with my silliness, already! ( Read more... )

For the first time in a long time, I am happy with who I am, where I am, and what is to come. I was a very sad person at this time last year and, now, I am seventeen with a bright future not isolated merely to the mind ( Read more... )

It is about time that I sat down and wrote ( Read more... )

We all have our qualms at the beginning of an great journey ( Read more... )