The other day in class, on the topic of Chaucer's Parliement of Fowls, my professor went into one of his interesting monologues about a reward system which often appears unfair.…
Remember when I said the state of my imagination can best be described as in constant haywire? Good. I think a good education requires a healthy imagination and curiosity about…
"What will you do after grad school?" We were watching the Super Blood Moon. The shadow of the earth had started to crawl over the surface of the moon and…
What I Most Want by Jalâloddin Rumi [Transliteration by Coleman Bark] What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've…
Poets.org sent a poem-a-day a couple of weeks ago and of this poem I can neither recall title nor author. But as I was reading it, I noticed a reference…
If upon reading the title of Edwidge Danticat's novel Claire of the Sea Light your mind conjures words like poetry and fairytale, the same happened to me. But if you consider…
Though I have sort of stuck to aloneness for most of my life, it is now becoming apparent to me that the basis of some attitudes that I have considered…
It is funny how when we look back through memory things shift into such perspective that we are easily able to identify specific decisions and moments which made great impacts…