Finishing up the final edits on By the River , my senior project. Writing my MFA application essays. Moving to a bigger apartment with a per...

A few weeks ago I began collecting links to blogs/websites of classmates, professors and alumni of Chester/NHIA. My intent was to simply lin...

Ever feel like a message is being hammered at you from all directions at once? I have. And this is the message: Stop being afraid. Just w...

This woman sums up my feelings about breastfeeding in public: Amanda Palmer sums up my feelings about media reaction to breasts (don'...

This week is my first full week of classes in the New Hampshire Institute of Art's Creative Writing BFA.  A classmate in my Creativ...

Last semester I wrote a 20+ page paper on food in literature. I began the project thinking about modern writers like Elizabeth Gilbert and J...

As many of you already know I plan to attend Chester College of New England in New Hampshire this fall. I began the application process las...

Of course the semester I decide to take on a letter writing challenge is also the semester my workload doubles. Between freelance writing, w...

Why does every class have at least one person who feels they should do one or all of the following: -Attempt to be smarter than the teache...

suggested by Altered Words "In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to young Franz Kappus '...If you wake up every...

Yesterday was easily one of the most amazing days of my life. A few years ago when I was going through a really rough time I was posting som...

I've been thinking a lot about callings and destiny today. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you know that Oprah's last show is...

I've been trying to write a post about the current education debates going on around the country for awhile now. I'm really struggli...

I've been busy! I'm in the process of deciding which school I will be attending next fall. I really like the school I am at, but I...

This is the conversation I have had a thousand times now... Them - "So what is your major?" Me - "I'm a liberal studie...

Yesterday I was pushing a 6-year old on a playground swing. I said, "How high do you want to go?" "All the way to the sky! ...

Actually, I have too many dreams! Last night's Intro to Education class made me really start thinking about teaching in a public schoo...

I have survived my first week of college. I have three hours of work this afternoon and then the next two days off. Planning on apple-pickin...