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LATEST ARTICLES ( 20 )

• A Quick Reminder: Time is Relative

  There are some days when you feel defeated from the moment you open your eyes in the morning (if you don't: TELL ME YOUR SECRETS). For me, this feeling stems... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Smiled Because I Knew

  "Are you guys soulmates?" a woman leaned in and asked at the bar. I giggled, because of what a silly question it was. The term "soulmate" is such an overused... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Was a Coward

  I'm laying on my bedroom floor coughing up dust. The nostalgia that is erupting in my mind over the simplest objects - an old tee-shirt, a book that I decided t... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Home is Not a Place

  Home is a feeling. Home is the precious tranquility that overcomes your mind when you feel entirely comfortable with your surroundings. It is the breath of fres... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• You Are a Work of Art

  Hating your body is exhausting. I know this because I am a female who shamed her own body for years, until one day when I decided that I was beautiful. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Homage to Calvert County

  It takes a vast amount of compassion and imagination to appreciate a place as unremarkable as this. In a town this small, you must invent your own fun. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Don’t Be Afraid to Scream

  The first time someone slides a woman’s legs apart they may not ask for her permission. They may violate her in ways you cannot imagine. She can scream for... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summertime Sadness

  

  Its been awhile since I’ve posted anything on here, but mostly because I’ve been focusing on creating an online magazine. If you haven’t checked it out yet,... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• New Beginnings

  I have been desperately thrashing at the mysterious layer of bricks veiling the future in an attempt to answer a solitary question that is driving me mad:... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Brief Ramblings While Laying in Bed

  thoughts at 12:15 i want to wake up to your sleepy yawns and bedroom eyes every morning; i’d smile, then snuggle close and drift back to sleep for a few hours i... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Hazy Shade of Winter

  You think you know exactly what to do when you’re in that moment. Then that moment comes, more abruptly than you could ever imagine, and all former... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Crisis of Faith

  I.It is 8:00 a.m. Sunday in St. John Vianney church. My sister is on one side of me squirming around and tapping her feet on the kneelers. My brother, on the... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Map to Paradise

  

  The best part of me is hidden. You cannot see it; I cannot see it. But, I can feel it. When I close my eyes, I am exhaustively overcome by it. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ldr

  

  So, I was searching through my usb and discovered an album review I wrote of Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die. I understand that this album came out almost exactly a... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Ugly Mouth.

  

  The problem with loving you is only having two arms to hold you with, two eyes to admire every enticing detail and two hands to intertwine with yours. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• X~mas

  

  family photo (of course missing amber) life update: christmas has come and gone and it felt lovely and refreshing to spend time with my family for a couple days. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 6.

  

  It was at the point of embarrassment. I don’t mean embarrassing like spilling all your food on the ground in the middle of the café at school with hundreds of... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 5.

  

  Riding as a passenger in my best friend’s Camry, I gaze out the window while approaching the traditional row houses where we abandon the car. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 3.

  

  as i tossed and turned in my unkempt loft bed waiting for a text from you saying you had arrived, my mind raced to places i didn’t even know it was capable of. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 1.

  

  i’m wearing a long black maxi dress with a tan rope belt cinched at my waist. i’m completely inebriated, tripping over my words and my feet. you take me to... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION