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I have a big problem and her name is Elise. You may ask me who Elise is, but I cannot tell you the answer. She […]

April 25, 2022

I have always been a staunch believer in precious freedom.  If someone told me that my actions were pre-ordained by some invisible puppeteer, tucked away […]

April 10, 2022

I’ve often been told that I have a good memory.  It all started in middle school, when I first discovered the joys of compiling a […]

March 6, 2022

Much has been made of the -ics and their various -isms in the past few centuries. The romantics had their romanticism, the rational-ics with their […]

February 20, 2022

My winter break in Florida was marked by the most unusual of traditions.  Instead of a daily visit to the key lime pie factory or […]

February 6, 2022

The defining characteristic of our current pandemic is perhaps its crushing circularity. Diseases crash through a population in waves; cities and countries open and shut […]

January 24, 2022

I spent Saturday morning perched on the couch in my common room, listening to my “sad music” playlist. When Spotify rolled around to Everybody Hurts […]

December 5, 2021

Any good writer knows that the cardinal rule of writing is to eschew platitudes.  Budding writers, from a young age, are trained in the ways […]

November 14, 2021

Two years ago, on the first of November, I sat at the dinner table with my parents and toasted to the culmination of 17 years […]

October 31, 2021

My childhood obsession with chocolate started with Munch chocolate bars. Violently tearing open the striking purple wrapper, gently biting into the fragile, flaky chocolate shell, […]

October 10, 2021

I admire born storytellers.  Public speakers, high school teachers, friends of parents at a cocktail party, all of whom can talk about buying carrots at […]

September 27, 2021