Creative

Facebook erodes journalistic integrity.  Facebook takes power and money away from journalists and small news shops. See Reuters article. The latest example is the hostile and hardball plays with the Australian government to not pay journalists for the content they create and Facebook profits from. See WSJ article. Facebook makes no distinction between suitable, fact-checked …

This quote, “Be humble, be simple, bring joy to others” is said by Madeleine Sophie Barat, a Catholic Saint, and founder of the Society of Sacred Heart. For me, her legacy of women’s education and concern for the marginalized is inspiring. But she also reminds me of the importance of female role models in my …

This is a short story I wrote this summer inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “August 2002: A night meeting” from the martian chronicles. Michael peeled back the black tape on the dashboard on the car to reveal the orange blinking signal “check engine” he scoffed to himself, why am I not surprised. Michael’s father was putting …

After finishing my freshman year, I went on a 10-day 120-mile trip with my Dad on the Appalician trail through the smokey mountains. I had a lot of time to reflect on the trail, and i recorded everything in a small paper journal. Unfortunately, I lost the journal on the airplane back to San Francisco, …

Jesus said that the core of being Christian is to love God and love thy neighbor as thyself. Except Jesus wouldn’t have used these words. This is the English translation and English has a very loose definition of that keyword, love. We use the same word to say “I love you, mom” as we do …

my dad and I were stuck in traffic driving up to Sonoma County for a family weekend. We were talking for a while and eventually, he asked me, “well, what’s the greatest gift you could give someone?” I thought about this question for a long time, the whole weekend. I came up with my answer: …