This I believe

August 4, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’ll always remember debating in school whether people are inherently good, or inherently evil. There was never a conclusion or a right answer, it was always just a discussion. I liked to think that people are inherently good when I was young. How could people be inherently evil when those people were the select few? […]

Staying positive in the light of negative news

December 8, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

With all the political, environmental, and emotional turmoil that hit the U.S in November of last year, I could hardly stand to listen to the news anymore. All news seemed like bad news: natural disasters, mass shootings, and offensive politicians were becoming mainstream. Raised in a family that works in the news industry, cutting it […]

Women, Art, and other Matters Concerning the Mind of the Complex and Complicated

August 29, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

As a writer (or at least someone who enjoys writing), I often have a desire to look back at things I’ve written in the past. Digging through some old poems, personal narratives, and letters to myself I found an old manifesto I wrote as a class assignment. I wrote this about 2 years ago, and […]