2002 singles

A sports-related injury meant that I couldn't take a couple of gym classes. The guidance counselor, Ms.Oliver, put me in grade ten and eleven drama in a single semester as a way to keep my timetable full. The teachers at the time weren't entirely impressed with my being dropped into their classes and weren't all that helpful in catching me up. With lots to prove, I worked hard to prove them wrong. In the…

This past term I went on a college visit to Capri. Capri is a college for people to learn hair, makeup, and massages. When we got there, we walked in and there were people at the front desk asking names. once they have your name they gave you a small piece of paper that you had to fill out; so your name could be put in a drawing for a prize. You could walk around to the different stations they had there to look at all the things they had. the first on I went up to was the hair. My mom and me…

“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” This quote was said by Hugh Mackay, the founder of an Australian quarterly research series, The Ipsos Mackay Report. Everyone has different feelings on what a healthy relationship looks like. Some believe you should never fight and always be happy with each other. Others believe in tough love, in order to make the most out of someone you have to push them to their limit. The reality,…

Home is “another country, a mother tongue, a relationship-- “It’s possible to live within the ambit of a person not a country”-- an organization or political party” (Gready). Exile, on the other hand, “is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted…” and is “a potent, even enriching” experience (Said). While in The…

When I was a kid in the suburbs of Chicago, adventure man Oliver Montgomery park up on the boarder of Minnesota and Canada. the name implies the place was small but Montgomery is a million acer nature preserve so big you could go days without seeing another soul. we would go on camping trips up there weeks of canoeing and scavenging seeing bears, mousse and deer sleeping under star soaked skies. the park was isolated and so pristine you could actually drink the water straight from the lakes but…

It's a drag to try to date as a young adult living with mom or dad. It isn't much better if you have a roommate. Life is so much better if you have a space that is truly yours. But how do you make that happen? 1) Run The Numbers Start by finding an online mortgage calculator and playing with it a bit. See what kind of impact different percentages of down payments have on the mortgage payment. Look at homes of the type you aspire to own and get a feel for roughly how much they cost. This…

Children at War Awoken in the middle of the night by ear-shattering crashes and shaking ground, screams from the world outside enter through the window. You’re parents come running into your room, pleading with you to get up. They tell you that it’s time to leave. You are bustled outside, where the night sky is lit up with the flames of your burning hometown. You nose is assaulted with the smell of burning flesh. Crowds of people are running, trying to escape. You and your family join the…

Harlequin was starting to feel dizzy. Everything was swirling together. He knew he was close to whatever wanted him. He kept walking, step by step, hearing the crunch of every leaf and branch each crushed. He was determined to help whoever needed it or find whatever needed finding. All of sudden he was forced to stop, he trudge on but it used up all of his strength, he ended up falling onto a root of the nearest tree. Harlequin’s mind was taken somewhere else, through someone else’s eyes. He…

Vincent James is an eighteen-year-old Caucasian male who has been referred to me because of reported social anxiety. Vincent is single, recently graduated from high school, and is living with his grandmother. He does not have a job, or a driver’s license, and is concerned about his future, as he wants to transition into adulthood, but cannot bring himself to do the things that he wants to do, in order to have the things he wants. Vincent’s parents are divorced, and living on opposite sides of…

1:27 AM - I wake up grab a pen and paper, I turn on the lights and start writing every detail, and every emotion, where I was and what happened. 1:32 AM - done. Lights off. I take a deep breath and close my eyes. 5:31 AM - a ray of light attacks my eyes, it's quiet just one bird probably half a house away. 8:00 AM – I arrive at my company and sit down at my desk, perfect , everything is in order. I look around people are just beginning to arrive. Bad business “Hey Sheldo” – Said Jessica…