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Students and Samaritans
What if good intentions and a strong desire to "make a difference" aren't enough?Almost Famous
Not impressed? Well, I bet you won't believe what arrived in my mailbox this morning.
A Guest in My Own House
Living with a host family is a difficult adjustment after two and a half years in Oberlin's dorms.In loving memory of summer
I've already got crazy nostalgia for the long, lazy summer days spent lounging in the hammock on our porch, the nights of impromptu jam sessions with my more musically inclined friends, the smell of freshly baked bread rising up from our kitchen.
Pizza Night at Keep
I learned that there is a certain art to pie-making, kneading from the center out, making sure that the middle isn't too thin, and being careful to leave a slightly raised border along the outside so there's some semblance of crust after it bakes.Vulnerability and Culpability
Drugs, thugs and racism: a smidgen of what I've learned so far on the border.The Long Road Home
Tomorrow will be my first opportunity to listen to my completed mix, The Long Road Home. That last leg that seems to last oh-so-long will be much quicker this time.On Rejection
In this post: rejection letters, romantic rejection, my petty impulses, The Kenyon Review, and children's publishing.
Circus Parties and Finales
We were getting bedraggled, after countless handstands, cartwheels, and rope climbs. Yet as the weeks wound down, we got closer and closer as a group.Darius
The movie centered on Darius, a 15-year-old with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Darius' brother Mario died of the same disease when he was 19, and Darius talks about his brother occasionally during the film.Conquering my fear of readings
She told me how excited she was about the reading, and went on with something to the effect of: "I feel like all you creative writing majors have this separate writing world you live in sometimes. It's obviously such a huge part of your lives, and yet most of the rest of us never get to be a part of it."
Tucson isn't Oberlin, and other orientation lessons
Tomorrow marks both the end of the Border Studies program orientation and the end of Bush's reign. Now the real work begins.