Dear Winter, I am writing this today because I really don’t know how to say this to you in person. I guess I’ll start by saying this: I’ll always have a special place in my heart for you. I mean after all, we’ve been through so much together. That time when I couldn’t get out…
I’m sure each of us has heard an incredible story at one time or another. It seems to be one of the ubiquitous experiences of people in general, and it seems that everyone enjoys a good story. We just have to look at the success of entertainment in modern culture and our deep-seated love…
As we reach the midpoint of the second semester, some of you may be wondering, “Jeez, how did I get so productive and successful this year? I want to get back to that blissful ignorance after Jack taught me how to not prepare last semester.” Well, if you have somehow, despite not preparing, come…
I love stories. Stories have always been one of my favorite parts of life. There is just something incredible about a well told story. My favorite stories have all been fantasy. I grew up reading “Eragon”, “Lord of the Rings”, the “Redwall” series and many books that are likely not well -known enough to…
Seventeen lives were lost last Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in Parkdale, Florida. That day the Internet sent hundreds of thousands of prayers to the families of the victims. Along with the prayers, however, came passionate and grief-filled political statements, blaming the horrible event on guns. I was disgusted to see…
Colorado has become fairly infamous for school shootings. It was the home of perhaps the most infamous school shooting in America: Columbine High School. My high school was right down the road from Columbine, and while I am far too young to remember that shooting, I was unfortunate to experience one of my own. On…
John Adams once said: “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” George Washington agreed…
It’s important to stay abreast with politics and news, and so many people would agree. So why do so many of us seem so ignorant of what is going on in this country? It is one thing to have a personal philosophy from which you intentionally preclude yourself from politics and keeping up with…
We live in a serious world. There is as always, war, famine, death, disease, murder and other horrible things happening every day. Even our personal lives can be filled with a litany of is- sues and calamities that keep us with a scowl on our faces, and give us very little to laugh about. Couple…
When I was growing up, I was always told to be myself. Every single day, both my mother and my father told me to be myself. In fact, I think that the “be yourself” mantra is one that so many of my generation’s parents told them over and over. So why did so few people…