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New Year, New Me… Yeah, Probably Not

I really love the concept of starting fresh each year — reinventing myself, making meaningful change — it’s powerful. In theory, New Year’s resolutions are great — not only do they force us to look back at what we’ve been doing and re-evaluate, but they also ask us to do better. Eating too much pie?…

Waiting

I have written one poem in my adult life. One. In a previous blog post, I wrote about my experience as a student at UC Santa Cruz, during a period in my life when my husband and I were living nearly two-thousand miles apart. In that post, I write about how I found great solace…

Why Literature?

I chose a humanities degree not because I wanted to make a lot of money (my current job hunt is proof of that), but because it satisfies the needs of my soul. Literature carries within it the solution to almost every human need. It fills the gaps of missing education – be it history, culture,…