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  • How To Be Proud Of Your Thin Skin

    I have a new mantra for you.  Over-feeling is not a bad thing. Going through the world with your heart on your sleeve is not a bad thing. Feeling others’ pain as you would your own…

  • How To Love Your Looking Glass

    What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see you? You have bumpy bits and wobbly bits and parts of you you wish you could photoshop away. It doesn’t work that way.…

  • The Coward Does It With A Kiss…

    Have you ever loved someone so much that it takes over an entire city? The walls of your home have sponged up bits of the love you had. And now they’ve turned on you.…

  • “If You’re Going To Have Two Faces…”

    You know those people who walk around with their heads high and look like they’ll slap you if you say hi? I’m one of them, or so I’ve been told. But, I’m nothing like…

  • How Mr. Darcy Proposed Under Meg’s Umbrella In Hogwarts

    I bought an umbrella from China. A frilly edged, white and pink parasol with a neat wooden handle, glossy and polished. Walking to class in the morning with the sun trying to burn my skin, I…

  • Where’s Daddy?

    “Class consciousness.” Never been truer than for the middle classes. Now I grew up in nine different houses. Sometimes I got to put candy in the grocery cart, and sometimes not. There were vacations…

  • Books Will Never Judge Your Cover…

    I trail my fingers down the leather clad spine, ridged and looped with gold thread. The pages are a buttery yellow, smoothed and soft. There’s a clinging delicate scent, of old ink and new…

  • My Father, The Mortal

    Today, my life changed. Well, not in the shooting stars or melodramatic turn of events way; rather in a stop and think kind of way. Today, I realized my dad isn’t immortal after all. Sure, he’s…

  • 6 Issues All International Students Face

    Flying to another country where you will live for the next four years can be challenging…to say the least. You’re excited, upbeat, willing to try new things, and face new obstacles. Until you find…

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