I went back and forth about whether to write a post about 9/11. In some ways, it is an insignificant day to me – at the time, I was 9 years old and believed that the next target was going to be the Space Needle, which was the only important tall building I could conceptualize […]
I am a young voter – there, I’ve admitted it. I’m on par with the unicorn in my rarity and have only been voting for nary 2 years now. However, I have worked on campaigns before. In my high school days, I registered people to vote when I was not yet allowed to touch a […]
I started this blog in 2007 as a place to essentially blurt out my thoughts in rants and other highly-energetic forms of writing. This week, I have been going through all (literally: every single one) of my blog posts in order to retroactively label and interlink them (as per the advice of Darren Rowse of […]
This peacock’s name is Phil. As of today, I have returned to the fold of college students. With classes and books and other nonsensical ideas such as program filing for next semester (although the website is mysteriously lacking in functional ways to do this). Overall, the last two weeks have gone by with a blur […]
I remember Heathy and I trying to make a website one time… before www.thecowation.com became my personal project and after the JDishia site became a total failure [not entirely because my computer crashed and I lost all its data]. We were avid writers back then, and we tried to create a website for “teens” (though […]
I was listening to Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father again today, and I started to realize how all of his values have been shaped.The messages of his campaign are quite similar to the life lessons he wrote about throughout that memoir; his beliefs as contrasted with those of Malcolm X and the ideas imparted […]