Essay

The irony is not lost on me. The day that Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated, is the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

My friend, on New Year’s Eve, learned a new word.

My copy of Frankenstein sits on my lap, the old pages glad to finally be read. I began it at the end of eighth grade, and yet I am only a few chapters in now.

Heaven is a state of mind where all of your fantasies are actualized.

One of my favorite things to do is bake. When I bake my mother's Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies, the 24 cookies I have baked, are already gone in a blink of an eye! I see everyone with pure happiness.

Every day is a new chance to make a choice—whether it's something good or something bad. Not everyone goes looking for trouble, but somehow, trouble always finds its way to you.

People’s ideas of Christ here are small, frivolous, watered down with weak will. I could (and have) watch (-ed) Jesus’s (God’s?

We are a group of people mostly under the age of 18 that according to the government might as well not exist.

We are underestimated by grown-ups

Because we have not been through all of school.

How I Accepted My Karma and Found Hope Again

I am eight. I sit across from my mom in my pediatrician’s office on the paper-covered table. The paper is crinkled and uncomfortable. My mother’s head is cupped in her hands as the pediatrician leaves the room.

New York City is the most densely populated city in the United States. New York City is also one of the most famous cities in the world. If you walk down the street anywhere in the city it will be alive, the city doesn’t sleep.

7:53 My mother has creases under her eyes I’ve forgotten I contributed to, laugh lines around her lips I didn’t realize were from jokes I’d made.