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• New York: The Homeless Man

  I’d only ever heard bad things about homeless people. My mom once told me a USC student had been assaulted by a homeless man behind a row of bushes on campus on... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• New York: The Lost Girl

  The streets were just as crowded at night as during the day. Instead of walking on soles, it felt like my bones had grown knots on the bottoms of my feet. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• New York: On Riding the Subway

  I was told I wasn’t having the typical subway experience. “Last time we were here, there were so many people on the train there wasn’t anything left to hold ont... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• New York: A First Impression

  On the first day we went by ferry. It was warm. The back of a man’s shirt sitting in front of us was already drenched in sweat. The shirt was blue, collared. A... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• New York: In Pictures

  

  Now that I’m back from The Big Apple, I’m gearing up for more blogs. I’m going to take yet another break from my Monday’s with Madeleine posts to catch you up o... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Wanted; I Want

  I am almost decided that I’m going to stop listening to music. I don’t know if maybe Satan is trying to sabotage my reading experience or what, but it seems lik... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• What I Learned from Hermione Granger

  

  We Heart ItYesterday, I talked vaguely of something that reading Harry Potter taught me about obedience. It came in the form of the character Hermione Granger,... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Monday’s with Madeleine: Week Two

  

  Serving the Gift: Artists and Their Art An Incarnational Event “Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Monday’s with Madeleine: Week One

  

  AmazonA while back I bought a compilation book of quotes from Madeleine L’Engle’s various works. The book is swollen with wisdom, brimming over with... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Statement of Purpose

  To whom it may concern,I’m not going to lie to you. I have come off a shoddy four years of college. Oh, I graduated, yes, and I kept my GPA above a 3. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Bon Jovi Had It Right: “It’s My Life”

  

  We Heart ItI don’t really know a whole lot about Bon Jovi except that he was the Pretty Blond Boy of the 80s, which I don’t remember because I wasn’t born yet. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• The One Where I Use A Staple Remover to Imitate Lord Voldemort

  

  Our story starts on a hot summers day in the interior of a bank. Business is slow, and two of my co-workers and I are scrounging for entertainment. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Thoughts On “Girls in White Dresses” by Jennifer Close

  

  Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer CloseMy rating: 4 of 5 starsGirls in White Dresses is a vignette of unprepared women recently graduated from college about... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 BOOKS, SELF EXPRESSION

• And On The Third Day…

  

  PinterestLast Tuesday night, I was having difficult time about where to go with the book I’ve been working on for four years now. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Speed Friending

  Last month, Em and I had a serious talk about the lack of friends in my life besides her and the ones I met through her, i.e. people she works with. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Friends and Weddings

  This past weekend I watched two of my friends get married amidst a thunderstorm. “Is it good luck for it to rain on your wedding?” one of the ladies who came... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Trailblazing

  

  Google Images, MTVSo, about the only good things to come out of the MTV movie awards (yes, sadly, I watched them) the other night was Johnny Depp’s generation... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Research

  I always admired Sarah Dessen’s honesty that she tries to pick story ideas that keep her from doing a lot of research. I never thought I’d be the kind of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• 5 Things I Learned from the Loreleis Gilmore

  

  We Heart It1. Don’t let your past define your relationships.If you’ve watched Gilmore Girls, you know that the hardest thing for Lorelei’s mother to overcome... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Thoughts on The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer

  

  Alert: spoilers.I’d first heard of Ann Packer’s The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by way of a movie I saw once on Lifetime. I knew the general story – a girl’s fianc... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION