After the Idaho Four murders, I avoid true crime now. I am a grad student at WSU in Pullman WA where the accused killer was also a grad student. My daughter is an undergrad at WSU also and she’s the same age as the UI students he allegedly killed. We used to live in the same grad…
I had my daughter one year to the day of my high school graduation, and though I wasn't afraid of the work it would take to help her become a kind and intelligent person (book-smart, life-smart, and love-smart), I was afraid I'd have to sacrifice my own educational life goals in order…
Old millennial here. I’m a third-year PhD student studying rhetoric and ideology. I love Gen Z. LOVE THEM! I’ve been watching Gen Z’s rhetoric, their conscious use of language (Villanueva), develop organically since they started appearing on social media apps. Their pointed “languaging”…
“I embrace my desire to
Feel the rhythm, to feel connected
Enough to step aside and weep like a widow
To feel inspired
To fathom the power
To witness the beauty
To bathe in the fountain
To swing on the spiral
Of our divinity
And still be a human”…
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" taught me that when you experience trauma, it's okay to not be okay with what happened, and that it is possible to move forward after tragedy. Three years ago, I went through something utterly horrific with my two daughters and we struggled to…
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