- To the World: Flashes of Love in Good Omens
It’s no secret that Good Omens is a novel based on love, adapted into a television series built on love, and inspired a fandom full of love. Love is the driving force that propels the story forward. There are countless examples from Aziraphale and Crowley’s loveContinue reading “To the World: Flashes of Love in Good Omens” - Crossroads: Part Five, University & Present Day
After graduating from high school in 2010, I started to feel that the weight of the world was lifting. I started the one newest chapters of my life at university that fall. At university, I had friends with whom I would spend nearly all of myContinue reading “Crossroads: Part Five, University & Present Day” - Crossroads: Part Four, High School
High school was the beginning of a fresh start. I was inducted into the Senior Beta Club and I joined the Future Business Leaders of America, also known as FBLA. I began to laugh more and live more. I started to go to the movies andContinue reading “Crossroads: Part Four, High School” - Coffee-Cocoa Walnut CakePREP TIME – 15 mins COOK TIME – 25 mins SERVES – 1 Cake INGREDIENTS: – 3/4 Cup Oats Flour 1/4 Cup Dark Cocoa Powder (unsweetened) 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder 1/2 Tsp Baking Soda 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract 1/2 Cup Raw Sugar (ground) 1/2 Cup CoconutContinue reading “Coffee-Cocoa Walnut Cake”
- Crossroads: Part Three, Adolescence
Adolescence brought with it an entirely new set of challenges. There I struggled with my past and the now disintegrated relationship with my father. As I got older, my understanding of what in endured grew more and more concrete. As a young child in elementary school,Continue reading “Crossroads: Part Three, Adolescence” - Crossroads: Part Two, Childhood
I have four half-sisters and six half-brothers. I am my mother’s only child, while my father has children from previous relationships. My early years in school were very productive, though I was often sick. In kindergarten, I missed about eighty days from school because I wasContinue reading “Crossroads: Part Two, Childhood”
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
— Mary Kay Ash
