When I was in my teens I always thought about how my parents struggled with technology. How I was the one who always had the answers when they had questions. I’d grown to believe I would never have the same experiences with my children; since I grew up with tech and didn’t discover it midway… Continue reading A 2030 Job
Category: Creative Writing
7 Moments
Each afternoon played out the same way for John. It had been this way for years. Although his view of it changed throughout the years both physically and mentally. He watched as his father drank from the age of three to eight. The same exact hours he would drink during the day. It started early,… Continue reading 7 Moments
How to Be a Smart Shopper
If there is one thing I have learned in my years alive, it is how to survive as a consumer in a world driven by money. But how, you ask? The easy answer would be to amass money, and then proceed to not spend said money. But as you and I, and business know, that… Continue reading How to Be a Smart Shopper
How to Cruise By College
Based on How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) by Junot Diaz Show up to class on time, just a little bit earlier if you can. This gives an impression of wanting to learn. Keep your head up in class. Listen. Chime in. Participate just enough so people remember you… Continue reading How to Cruise By College
LOVE
I tell you this every time we speak Maybe it’s just a word but it needs to be heard Because I love you I really do And this love will last until I pass It’s birthed alongside me As it was for you An instant bond of growing fond So far been 22 years long… Continue reading LOVE
Tragedy
The response is the same. Thoughts and prayers. An image to share. A hashtag to tweet. Digital sympathy to like. To remind us all you’re still there. It happened again. Another big one. More people died in a senseless act. And you posted on social media That you cared in a senseless act. Originally written… Continue reading Tragedy
Rough Draft
You are a rough draft. An original piece of creativity. Yet, you aren’t the best. So you work on yourself. The revisions and decisions made in order to better. To make it to the final draft. But there’s no end. No final you. Only pages upon pages of changes. The previous words try to hide.… Continue reading Rough Draft