“You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn’t love.” – Jerry Springer * The tortured love story is…
After two years of new friendships, developing aspirations and lessons learned, I have finally moved out of my on-campus home, the dorm room where I…
When I was nine years old, I made the most magical discovery of my life. One day, at the elementary school book fair, I picked…
“See, now that’s your problem. You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat…
“The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in…
“Thank you, Little Queen. Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh…
As I make my way through The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (yes, I’m still reading it — my summer has been hectic!), I can’t…
While listening to Taylor Swift’s more recent single The Story of Us, I couldn’t help but think about how relationships (whether platonic or romantic) tend…
“It’s not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to…
With the first half of my college career officially over, I’ve already started to get nostalgic. Not only is my sister about to graduate high…