confessions-of-an-ra

Summer vacations should be extended periods of time filled with relaxation, laughter, and family bonding. Instead, they’re often extended periods of time filled with tension, ...

I used to hate short stories. To me, the short story was a pale imitation of the novel—essentially, an unfinished thought, a weak, impotent, and ...

I have been home for approximately ten and a half days, two hundred and sixty two hours, 15720 minutes, and 943, 200 seconds. And it ...

Analogies are never perfect. Some, however, get pretty darn close. Though Alfred Lord Tennyson was supposedly writing about the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean ...

Man rarely accomplishes anything without the help of others. In 1856, a German immigrant called Pouis Prang realized this and brought thank-you notes to America. ...

I love prospective students. I love their energy, their nerves, their goading parents. I love it when they swarm campus carrying maps and admissions folders, ...