A few years ago, I was proctoring the SATs at school, and we were given more time than needed, so we had about an hour left before students were dismissed. After collecting everyone’s materials, I told the students that they could retrieve their things. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but they each did the same thing, and I found it unsettling enough to snap a picture. You’ll notice…
Life Lessons
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The Bottomless Void We All Try To Fill
I still remember exactly where I was when I heard about Anthony Bourdain’s death. It was June of 2018, and I was in a friend’s basement playing board games when someone checked their phone and stunned us with the news. It was also then that…
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The “Last Times” And Gratitude – To My Mother
During the mother-son dance at my wedding, my mother had an intense look of sadness in her eyes. She had choreographed the waltz herself, and we had practiced for months leading up to the wedding. But as we danced, she was missing steps, so I…
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Analysis of the Frog in the Well
There is a well-known fable about a frog that spent its entire life in a well, believing the sky was only as big as the opening. One day, a turtle visited the frog and told it about the vastness of the world, from the oceans…