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

Last month I read Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. It was incredibly well-written, and I really enjoyed the dialect that Hurston used in her dialogue. The only other book I’ve read that uses dialect was… Continue reading

These five favorites were chosen out of the forty-something books I read this fall, and there were some incredibly hard decisions to be made within that list! But if I had to choose five books to recommend, they would be…… Continue reading

Over the past couple of years, I’ve tried several different kinds of movement, but for exercise this year, I’m trying a ton of new options. My mom and I had a personal trainer last year at the Y, and we… Continue reading

This year my mom suggested that, once a month, we invite some other homeschooled teens for a Friday afternoon hangout.  Our crafts so far have included: exquisite corpse, painted mushrooms, tattoo mugs, and diamond art bookmarks. It’s been great to… Continue reading