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I’m from Hawai’i, I graduated from ‘Iolani School in Honolulu and Wagner College with a Bachelor’s in English Literature and French in New York City. I am now an English Teacher (ESL) in Seoul, South Korea.Continue reading “Hello”

August 6, 2020August 7, 2020

DAMN I guess I’m a Travel Blog now.

I didn’t want to be, but Facebook kicked me off , it’s been a dramatic few months without the ability…

The Deliverer

8 Jul 2018August 6, 2020

I stand on the cliffside watching the dawn glow over the ocean, the weary watcher of the sea. Though watcher isn't my title, not today. Not ever, and I have…

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Oliver’s Twist

29 Jun 2018August 7, 2020

Someone wanted to ask me out, so I gave them my email to ask me out. It takes a lot more time and effort to write an email rather than…

Sunday Morning

24 Jun 2018August 7, 2020

Sunshine spilled past lace curtain as a melody sweetly sung softly in the distance. The woman felt the light collecting in her room through closed eyelids, dancing with the aroma…

poetry

Going to Granada, Spain

15 Dec 2016August 7, 2020

You’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you want to be, so I know you’ll never die, not until you’ve seen it. “It” being everything, because if…

They’re Not Even Feminist Undertones at This Point: Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

17 Oct 2016August 7, 2020

Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" reveals debilitating socialization and structures that influence gender and femininity, dismantles strong, lasting ideas of an ultimately unneeded patriarchy, and takes what is usually seen as…

An Analysis of Social Poetry

29 Aug 2016August 7, 2020

“This is not a poem, it is a rock through a window.” -Daphne Gottlieb After the initial year of higher education at Wagner College and as I rest on the…

poetry

The end of an long distance relationship

20 Jan 2016August 7, 2020

Seven haikus I wrote to you in the month of November. Obviously, they never got to you. The leaves are turning Red and golden. I pick them To give you…

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Counterfeit Conversations

23 Nov 2015August 7, 2020

Julie Amparano, columnist for the Arizona Republic, had an affinity towards creative writing, but her intricate imagination didn’t progress her journalistic career. In fact, her artistry in coloring outside the…

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Intercommunity Work Connects International Cultures

21 Nov 2015August 7, 2020

A Wagner campus shuttles arrives every Monday at 2:40 p.m. to take Kathryn Wakeman, Olivia Weiss, Tina Truong, and Leeanne Zotynia from Learning Community 7 to Make the Road New…

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Celebrator of the Unsung, Curator of the Breathless

26 Oct 2015August 7, 2020

Robert McGill Thomas Jr., an American journalist for the New York Times, was 60 when he died on January 7, 2000 in his summer home in Rehoboth Beach, Del. His…