When I was younger, I lived for the attention of anyone whose attention I craved. Not so much in the "everyone please pay attention to me" sense (I was WAY too introverted for that), but in the sense that I wanted them to talk to me and focus on me in the hopes that they'd …
Trash Can (Creative Nonfiction)
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Can Adults be Pokémon Trainers, Too?
If you haven't heard about Pokémon GO, the newest craze in trying to "catch 'em all," I'd either be very concerned or highly impressed, since it takes very a strategic and intentional effort to ignore what's going on around you to miss this giant, hyped-up piece of news. However, since I don't judge, I'll still give you …
Writing is Hard
You know what really sucks? Writer's block. Which, yeah, is common knowledge, but when it hits hard, it hits really hard.I've been trying extra hard to write something fiction-related recently, but I just can't seem to stick with an idea that I'm passionate enough to write about. I start one story, try to write through …
Life Lessons From a Rebel Named Trigger
I visited Park City in Utah with my family, pretty recently. It was a quaint little city and it was such a good trip, overall. One of the activities we did while there was horseback riding, which I'm not a huge fan of, but I like horses and I like sight-seeing, so I figured I …
Butterflies (Creative Nonfiction)
“Love at first sight” is always portrayed like some hetero-normative, romance-movie hoax made up by people who didn’t want to give any effort to loving someone. It always sounded like a terrible excuse to justify a blinding obsession with a sculpted body or a glistening pair of ocean-colored eyes, as if we’re lying to ourselves …
Life After Pulse
By now, you probably should have heard about the United States' biggest mass shooting in history, which was targeted at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It has become abundantly evident that this was an attack on the LGBT community because of the shooter, Omar Mateen, and his negative attitude toward homosexuality. It has …
