Ruminations on an Edamame Holder
Wikipedia: “Pottery is made by forming a ceramic (often clay) body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures...
Loving the (In)visible
As time and space dissolve in the face of the internet, so do true perceptions. Scrolling through social media such as Facebook and...
Here's To National Women's History Month
Just the other day in my AP US History class, my teacher scrawled on the chalkboard the words "PROGRESSIVE AMENDMENTS" in really tall...
On Harper Lee's 'Go Set A Watchman'
More than fifty years after her Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee brings us Go Set a Watchman, a book with...
Lessons from Pre-Calculus
When my pre-calculus teacher, over podium and outstretched hand, spoke to me that November afternoon, I’d strung from his sentences more...
On Love, Life, and Navigating Adolescence
A few weeks ago, my AP Language teacher had enthusiastically announced the topic of our next essay to us, explaining that for the first...
Independence In (or From) Patriarchy
When I started writing this article, I had many ideas floating in my head on a cloud of passionate zeal and suppressed rage and of the...
A Congratulatory Anecdote for a Friend at Vassar, or A Discourse on Precarious Investments
When Lily and I ripped naan over a small and somewhat precarious table in Berkeley this weekend, I wondered whether you’d been thinking...
Now (If Only) You (Could) See Me
As we find ourselves at the beginning of yet another year, we must take some time to reflect upon the year we have just emerged from....
Pain, Perfection, and Cringe
The first snowfall in Cambridge brought in spun sugar flossing the bare trees, the Charles River calcifying into glass. We decided to be...
