"Write hard and clear about what hurts." — Ernest Hemingway
The Harvard Five-Foot Shelf is a beautiful collection of literature designed to give any reader a thorough self-education. I’ve set out to read this collection several times but never got very far. But at the beginning of this year, I wanted to change that. The first volume of this collection is The Autobiography of Benjamin…
“People raised on love see things differently than people raised on survival.” — Joy Marino We’ve all known people — or been people — that have experienced trauma of some type. It could be a broken home, a lost loved one, abuse of some type, or any other hardship. We know what it is like…
Ever since I started working at 15-years-old, I have been a full-time student simultaneously. Through high school, college, and now looking towards grad school, balancing numerous responsibilities is not a new concept to me. I am a creature of habit who thrives in routine. Over the last six-ish years, I feel like I’ve gotten the…
On a freezing cold morning, sitting on my windowsill in our Soviet-style apartment building in the tiny country of Moldova, I pulled out a journal. It had a pink polka dot cover and green paper. I started writing about what I saw looking out my window — the stray dogs, the people that I thought…