June 11, 2019 • No Comments
When I was five years old, I got into a heated argument with another little girl. The debate was on the existence of fairies. When the preschool teacher intervened, she sided with the other girl and promptly told me that “There...
May 29, 2019 • No Comments
I liked a lot of things when I was eleven. Ice cream, for one. And I couldn’t wait to grow up. Everything existed so obviously in Montana. I remember my mile-and-a-half morning pilgrimage to middle school, down the leafy...
Forging a New Perspective at Lake Enemy Swim
May 29, 2019 • No Comments
In a secluded corner of a state long thought to be bland and lifeless, lies the nucleus of my childhood. It was among the countless cottonwood and oaks of northeast South Dakota that I developed my sense of self, and a piece of...
June 11, 2019 • No Comments
On a typical winter’s evening just this year, I lay in bed trying to find a new film to watch and stumbled across the well-known classic, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Although I had always been interested in watching it, it was...
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June 11, 2019
We were conceived in the rubble of the Twin Towers like snowdrop blooms through January snow cover. Our...
March 13, 2019
For years sports were a job to me. Hours of practice, endless stress, and constant pressure to perform....
February 12, 2019
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines water as “the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms...
