Creative

This quote, be humble, be simple bring joy to others is said by st. Madeline Sophie of the religious of the sacred heart of Jesus. These words come from the women who founded the Sacred Heart School which my family and I attended. For me, her legacy of women’s education and concern for the marginalized […]

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 accidentally listening to a doomsday message on the radio about the coming millennium and the earth will be renewed. I asked my dad “what would this appeal to anyone?” we were talking for a while and […]