The Force of a woMan

I refuse to be limited by the so-called confines of being a woman. When I was little, I played with Minnie Mouse stuffed animals and pretended to be Mickey. I’d throw on the suit jacket with tails that Santa brought me at age 5, flip the tales out, sit down at the piano, and proceed [...]

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A short collection of brief character descriptions

While the semester is winding down and I’ve been doing more studying (or procrastinating) than adventuring, I look outside myself for inspiration for this entry. I’ve met a smattering of fascinating people over the past few months. Some have told me their stories, some were like a sentence in a Hemingway novel- short, but poignant. [...]

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The inevitable dawn

When you know you are living in a lucid dream, how can you possibly face awakening?

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Chicken Tits and Turtle Orgasms

Chicken tits and turtle orgasms caused a lot of noise-making and general debauchery in my apartment this weekend. For weeks now, I’d promised a group of Spanish friends that I would cook barbecue chicken for them. As a Kansas City native, I take much pride in the various sauces that have glazed my meats over [...]

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Dear God, John Deere?!

I absentmindedly stare out the bus window on my daily 45 minute ride up a mountain to university. Usually I just read the splatters of gallego separatist graffiti on the buildings and let my thoughts wander. Today, my ambient thoughts were interrupted by a humorous surprise. A scruffy and dirty Galician farmer rolled down the [...]

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Beer and Bratwursts in Bavaria

I basically ate my way through Munich. Within hours upon my arrival to the capital of Bavaria (a state of Germany), my gracious host, a friend also studying abroad, whisked me away to Haufbrauhaus for my first taste of authentic German beer and food.  “You have to order a mass,” she instructed me. I obeyed. [...]

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