August 2011
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My new nails!
My third grade class exercised a broad curriculum with the intention of bestowing an education that was not just academically proficient, but colorful in variety of lessons learned. Often, our Ms. Ellen would gather her students to venture into a modest but carefully kept garden, where each student was given a task such as transferring a single periwinkle from its pot to the earth. Precocious...
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The Quintessential Las Vegas Experience
At times I find my life to be a delicate and careful dance between avoiding and embracing.
The power of a cliche rests entirely in one’s ability to dictate its presence. As an artist, a writer, a twenty-something woman, the odds are invariably stacked in favor of moments carved away by so many before that what is left feels void of any ownership. I often find myself laughing at the...