Beige

Those herbs you grow in your kitchen are more than charming and tasty. They just might save your life. Who knew? Everybody realizes they're good for you, but these plants contain the secrets of optimum health and longevity. I'm not going to tell you culinary herbs might be beneficial. Do the research and you will surely find that your most powerful medicine very well may be growing in your window sill. What's also amazing about this discovery is you don't have to spend time and money hunting…

It was a long summer’s evening in Colorado Springs, 1975. The air was warm and still, and Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” and Rod Stewart’s “Maggie Mae” were spinning on the AM station of my friend Paul’s Earl Schrieb freshly-painted turquoise-blue Karmann Ghia. “When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand…” I felt accomplished to have memorized each song and confidently sang the works out loud. Paul closely resembled Jim Croce: dark Italian skin, long chestnut curls,…

Danielle Murchison Prof Hagemen Eng 101 Mon/Wed Oct 14 2014 Life’s Battles On Screen Beatris=Tris From the time we are all old enough to think on our own there is a constant battle. Our choices are endless and it is unusually hard sometimes to pick just one thing and stick with it. Especially when it’s time for college there are so many choices and requirements and not all the time we fit or meet the requirements for those specifics. After watching Divergent it helped me to compare…

Sandy Scroll awoke to the sound of rusted bells – not so much a chime as a series of dull, metallic thunks in the distance – and was greeted by the familiar scents of dust and ash and centuries-old paper. She rubbed a beige hoof against her aching temple and shivered at the frigid draft that blew through the window in front of her. The fire on her hearth must have died while she had slept, and it had been ages since this town had produced glass with which to ward off the winter winds. Sand…

was she said she was on a date. I threw the phone on the ground. It was attached so it just hung there. I started walking home and I felt really light headed. That 's the last thing I remember, I woke up in some sort of hospital bed. The walls were beige and they had nothing on them. I saw someone outside the door and I asked them where I was and this girl in a white lab coat said I was in a psychiatric hospital in California. I asked her how I got there and she said that I fainted and when I…

The Fundamentality of the Arts in Public Education Picture a barren wasteland, empty of any thought that branches outside of normality. Beige walls decorate bland streets filled with broken dreams and sullied minds. This is the world without art. Earth takes breaths of life and joy because we strive to create. The world needs art, not for survival, but for the sake of its people. To rephrase: humanity needs art. Art and music help to fuel the brain, these fields of creativity are challenging…

On October 4, 2016, I went and saw Mamma Mia at 8:00pm at the Lutcher Theatre. This show was performed by Work Light Productions. Mamma Mia is a musical about a girl who is about to get married, Sophie, and wants to know who her father is so he can walk her down the aisle. The only problem is that her mom hasn’t told her much about her father so she doesn’t even know a possible name until she finds one of her mom’s old journals. She finds three possible father’s and invites them all. Her friends…

There were some positives, and I can’t help but acknowledge them because they happened and I fell for them. He was crazy about me in the beginning, I would receive text after text that it at one point was nauseating. I didn’t give him the time of day until I actually did. We were supposed to have lunch one Saturday during a weekend that I hid on Central Park South. I spend the day downtown and did things I loved. Then one day I traveled to Harlem for the first time by myself. I was too tired to…

FADE IN: EXT. DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK - NIGHT A drunken man walks down the sidewalk. He stops and leans against a light pole to have to have a smoke. He fumbles out a cigarette and pulls out a flip lighter. After a few tries and cupping the lighter, exposing a cut on his hand, he lights his cigarette. He takes a drag and looks up from the ground off screen. He lightens up and smirks. DRUNKEN MAN: Oh, it’s you again! Piss off, you littl... A hand with black gloves is shown with a gun. DRUNKEN MAN: Hey,…

Civil Rights activist and poet Maya Angelou once wrote, “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” Today, this is a quote that I repeat to myself everyday in order to get through anything that the universe sends my way. However, many years ago, I would have never believed in doing such a thing. It was difficult for me to get it screwed into my brain that it is possible to move beyond things that could knock me down. The present is…