January 2009

Dear Post-Surgical Self… How does it feel to have two working knees!? I admit, that feeling is foreign to me now as I have forgotten the way it feels not to have to monitor the impact of every step. I have forgotten the feeling of the freedom to walk miles and miles with the fantastic [...]

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At the heart of nearly every parent’s actions, both negative and positive, is an overriding conviction that it is their responsibility to make sure you grow up to be exactly as they picture a perfect member of their society. In different cultures, this can mean drastically different things. In different social classes, the ideas which are passed down [...]

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There is a single word to classify each one of my memories of life. The word encompasses, with humility, all that drives us for more. All that drives us to ascend our darker moments and surpass our social rank. The dream that, if translated into chemical form would refine to pure adrenaline. The word is [...]

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We all have taken a test, read a book, or spoken with a psychologist or councilor who has told us we learn with a dominant sense. We are, the experts claim, predisposed by nature (and nurture) to one of three learning styles: auditory, visual, or kinesthetic. If we are most receptive to sound and speech [...]

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