My First Lecture

(An abridged and altered version of what I presented to Mrs. Vanbuskirk and the summer PN class of 2019. Based on The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.) When I started thinking about writing my lecture, I realized that I only had one childhood dream. I’ve had that dream since I was ten; maybe younger, and it …

Canvas

When your thoughts are all swirling around so fast, you can’t make sense of them; it’s like a huge piece of modern art. Swirls of intense, confusing colors, blotches of blood red so deep it hurts to look. Gaping holes of untouched canvas, where the questions were never answered. Unfinished edges, because the story isn’t …

Let Me Follow You

I wrote this poem when I was sixteen years old, and recently found it again. I'm not especially proud of the poetry, but I am incredibly grateful for the fact that through the trials and tests of the past several years, God did let me follow Him, and He did not forsake me. Let Me …

Book Review: Where Dandelions Grow

Where Dandelions Grow By Lydia Howe Find it on Amazon, Goodreads Before I get into the review, I just want to thank Lydia Howe for the incredible amount of work and imagination she put into this! It's truly a work of art, and I'm honored to be reviewing this as my first book review on …