It's hard for me to take good news at face value. I'm pretty sure I can't be the only person to think this way - I lower my expectations about everything so much that I will refuse to believe that something amazing has happened to me until I have solid, tangible proof of it. Of … Continue reading Phases of acceptance
Category: Writing
Ode to Boston
Anyone who has ever spoken to me for more than five minutes knows how much my soul craves a city that I had never in my life seen but which I nonetheless called home. My love affair with this city, with Boston, began a few years ago after having my heart broken by New York … Continue reading Ode to Boston
I love writing college essays
Which makes it even more sad that so many of the ones that I wrote ended up not getting me where I hoped they would. Still, I'm proud of all the essays I've written over the past, what, 6-7 months. All the frustrated groans and coffee shots were worth it. I'll probably post some of … Continue reading I love writing college essays
How does the author create a mood of terror and impending doom in the opening paragraph of The Fall of the House of Usher?
Macabre takes a whole new meaning in the writing of Edgar Allan Poe, the nineteenth century Bostonian author who pioneered the genres of detective fiction, gothic horror, and even the emerging sphere of science fiction. His own life seems to take on a mask of morbid mystery; much of his writing is said to be … Continue reading How does the author create a mood of terror and impending doom in the opening paragraph of The Fall of the House of Usher?
Another 365 Days – now what?
Well, that’s another year come and gone. It’s as if it’d just been 24 hours since I was sitting at the beach with my best friend and smiling at the copious amounts of sea life-smiting gunpowder that illuminated the midnight sky and yet here we are, contemplating what resolutions we will break in 2012. 2012. … Continue reading Another 365 Days – now what?
Neiha Lasharie 