This year has been about figuring out what I need to put my best foot forward. Change is hard and takes time. Patience is not a virtue I inherited. New routines can make a person feel like they have lost sight of their life. I was so focused on getting through the day that I ...

Ivy Three grows up in a five-thousand-person space station called The Exodus. The ship orbits two hundred and fifty-four miles above planet Earth. It’s a safe space, providing a stable life, a place full of windows where electric trains run, crops sprout from well-organized fields, and workers walk in lines like ants in a colony. Ivy sleeps ...

This month has been full of endings. This Is Us ended last Tuesday. I finished the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J.Maas. Both endings were brilliant and suited the mood. I will miss them, but maybe in 5 years, I can enjoy them again. I’m excited to see what impact these two different forms ...

Do you monitor your child's reading material? Read why Alena Orrison, suggests that you don't monitor your children's reading.

After reading some books, you’re left with a bitter taste in your mouth because the author left you on a cliffhanger. You get so frustrated because the book was so good that you just sit and you wait, and you wait, and you wait and hope that the next book is coming out soon. The ...

I have always read books. The only time I remembered not enjoying reading was when I first learned how to read. I would memorize books that I had to read in the first grade so my teacher wouldn’t realize I was behind. The next thing I knew I was reading the abridged versions of classics ...

“Movies aren’t being made due to COVID,” I said. “It’s impossible to make a movie and social distance at the same time.” “That sucks,” Tim muttered. “What if the movies we have now are the only movies we will ever have?” I mused.

Everyone has that one activity they can do after a horrible day, and somehow it makes everything better. Music is that thing in my life for as long as I can remember. Next to reading, it’s the next thing to go when I get stressed. I always went around campus with headphones in my ears ...

The past few weeks I have been watching the world and reacting in the best way that I know possible. I have watched numerous people lose their jobs and careers over ignorant comments. I have cried over the stress of important heated discussions and only started addressing the gaps in my education. Then underneath the ...

Sparks of light flicker Here, gone, there, gone; tricking eyes to search the darkness.