The Odyssey is the tale of perhaps the most famous liar in history. There are dozens of translations, multiple movies, a graphic novel, and even a musical. It’s a story over 2,700 years old, and it’s clearly stood the test… Continue reading

I’m in the final few months of my fifth year of homeschooling, and it feels like a good time to reflect on the many different approaches to classes I’ve taken. (Especially since it’s time to think about classes for next… Continue reading

Once again I bring you my quarterly reading update! These past few months have been busier with school and theatre, but I still had time to read some great books. Here are my top five (in no specific order), and… Continue reading

These past few weeks of my Environmental Science class have been all about different types of energy: hydropower, fossil fuels (think coal, oil, gas), biomass, geothermal, petroleum, propane, solar, uranium, and wind. We’ve read definitions, listened to lectures, and watched… Continue reading

Growing up in California meant I didn’t really have seasons. Winter was mild, almost never getting below 50 degrees F, and summer was warm. All my seasons were pretty similar, and we seldom had rain.   A few years ago, we… Continue reading

I have always loved creative writing—in elementary school I wrote countless short stories and poems, and English was my favorite class because of the creative writing the teacher assigned each week.  In middle school, I entered and won first place… Continue reading

Last semester I took a classical music course, which traced the history of classical music from Handel to Gershwin.  Some of my favorites from the fall semester were “Le carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals): VII. Aquarium” by… Continue reading

I’ve been in rehearsals for The Addams Family for the past four and half months, and it’s all been building up to opening night! I’m in the ensemble, which in this show consists of the Addams ancestors. We have ensemble… Continue reading

In the past few months I’ve started sketching more frequently. A lot of my friends draw, and at a Christmas party, one of them taught me how to draw a little fairy as an addition to my writing pages in… Continue reading

I started learning French when I was three years old, when my parents enrolled me in an immersion school.  I attended that school from preschool to 4th grade, including online classes during Covid.  In the first couple of weeks of… Continue reading