Creative, Non-fiction, all thoughts flushed out or half-baked.
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Something Like a Hobby
Read more: Something Like a HobbyJust dropped a stitch, another fucking stitch, and I’ve lost count of how many stitches are in this row, and I didn’t stick around to learn just how many rows of these little stitches I have to make until I have a cotton coffin. I sigh and look at my phone. I want to pick…
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How Public Education is Failing Us: A Former Students Perspective
Read more: How Public Education is Failing Us: A Former Students PerspectiveThe American public education system is not based off of any one individual teaching theory, yet the basis of the current educational system is much accredited to John Dewey, as his philosophy and belief was learning should take a ‘hands on’ approach, where students learn through experience which suggest interaction with said individuals environment and…
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Tomb of Technology
Read more: Tomb of TechnologyA creative response to an art history prompt based on the exhibit ‘The Temple of Dendur’ on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated 7.20.17. What is your intention? When you hold a screen up to your face, attempting to capture an image to share, who are you benefitting? Those pictures often have no…
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GODS COUNTY
Read more: GODS COUNTYIs it God in these one-off exchanges? Did I catch a glimmer in an elder’s smile, or in the shadow of a poor panhandler? I watch kids kick over needles and laugh, continuing to run along. The hollowed plastic hitting pavement echoes in my ears, louder than their giggles. They know what that is and…
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Lesson from Rilke
Read more: Lesson from RilkeLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and translated by Stephen Mitchell, has easily found its place amongst my top three favorite books, joined by Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson and a pending place for Catcher in the Rye (due for a redemption re-read but rivaled by Every Man by Phillip…
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