America is one of the leading first world countries in mass shootings, it is said that “Nearly one-third of the world’s mass shootings have occurred in the United States”motherjones.com. Many Americans believe that the problem causing the violence, however there are many flaws with this theory. With the amount of countries in the world America […]
What’s it like to be a twin? People often ask me if my twin sister and I look alike, think alike, act alike. Mi-ae and I were born a minute apart: me first, her second. As we grew up, we constantly bickered over little things like who sat in the front seat of Mom’s car, […]
Throughout the past sixteen years of my life, I have been morbidly shy. I used to be so shy, in fact that I had a difficult time talking to people whom I had not known my entire life, which in turn made it difficult for me to make friends outside of my family when I […]
I love everything about cooking. I love to be in the hot kitchen filled with the smell of rosemary being crushed, the odor of the pastries coming out of the oven, the Bearnaise sauce simmering in a pot ready to be drizzled over fresh Alaskan king salmon, and all the entrees being plated for the […]
I walk into the gym; all eyes turn to me. I am the only white person in the inner city community center. I feel like an outcast. The man at the door takes my bag as I walk through the metal detector. He gives me a hand shake, like those I had only seen in […]
I will remember everything about that October day: the way the hospice smelled, the blaring televisions in each room with viewers barely clinging to this world, the creak of the heavy door. Broken bodies lay helplessly on beds, waiting for nurses, or death, to tend their needs. Walking to his room, I had never been […]
When I was young,my mother believed in the power of optimism. She would repeat over and over again, “If you wake up claiming it will be an awful day, chances are it will be.” I grew accustomed to the idea that my attitude determined who I was, and the potential of who I could be. […]
I pulled up to my friend Kelsey’s house to find two cop cars sitting outside. We were unsure to why they were there; it was 11:00 p.m. on a Thursday night after all. I can remember the whole day so vividly. It started snowing in the middle of the day; the weather forecast was predicting […]
From what they would see, Grace had already stopped breathing. Her eyes, dull and lifeless, stared blankly into the eyes of her son. Horror was all that he could feel; shocking him to the point of immobility. He could only shift his gaze from his mother to the murderer behind her. The sun was setting […]
Every day, when I clamber off the school bus and walk the five minutes to my newly painted yellow house, I have approximately one hour of quiet to begin my homework. An hour later, while I am wrestling with a math equation, I hear the familiar sound of voices and country music rising from downstairs. […]
