Some people explore for experiences. Excitement. The fast paced stride through bustling cities with buses, trains and planes. But I often prefer a quieter, more scenic approach. My excitement comes...

To me, the gym beckons thoughts of heavy weight. Plates stacked side by side. Rattling. Clinking. Squeaking. In this orchestra of iron, there is a type of plate making these feats possible. It is...

I do not think anyone in my family thought our 2001 Mercedes ML 320 would survive 24 years. Of the 130,786 (and counting) miles it has covered, a mere 89.5 hold the most value. My dad’s drive back...

I am a drink lover.  Nothing motivates me more than when I have one of my favorite drinks in hand, ready to take on the day. Of course, the type of drink depends on how I am feeling, but I always know...

My favorite animal is a donkey. Yes, I know, shocking.  From Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh to the donkeys I see along farm roads, I have been an avid supporter of donkeys for many years.  In fact,...

For as long as I can remember, my family and I have watched movies together every weekend. There was never a spoken rule or agreement, but every Saturday and Sunday, without fail, we grab our food and...

As I sit in my AP Calculus AB class, I stare intensely at a worksheet filled with equations and tables. Even though my teacher explained the concept just minutes ago, I have forgotten everything. All the...

Recently, my family’s trips have followed a pattern of visiting places where nature is the main attraction. Last spring, we drove up to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and we traveled to Colorado over...

As a true apathetic toward nonfiction novels, memoirs have an unusual way of winning me over.  Each chapter, each new anecdote, recounts the ebbs and flows of an author’s life, touching every...

Place a tabla, saxophone, mridangam, piano, guitar, recorder and violin in a room full of musicians and you’ll end up with a septet - a seemingly arbitrary seven-instrument ensemble. Take out the...

My movie-watching spree started the first week of January. I secretly created a Letterboxd account to document my journey (which was apparently considered lame), writing a paragraph’s worth of a movie...

In IB English, we are learning how to write our Paper 2 essays. The premise is to ensure that we, as readers, understand how to properly analyze the content in our books. But this analysis part always...