"Fail. I cannot fail. Failure is for people who are weak, people who can’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps. If I fail, I am nothing. If failure makes its way into my life, the people I care about...
On January 12 the Islamophobic assault of an 11-year-old girl shocked the world when she reported that an older man attempted to cut her hijab on her way to her Toronto school. In the company of her mother,...
Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876 and died 1916. Between those years he packed in about as much adventure as is possible for one human being. London is famous for his tales of the wild and...
I crouch silently in a pile of rubble, leaning my back against a crumbling wall and clutching my water gun. Maybe it once was someone’s house, a picket fence out front and a kid playing in the yard....
As a millennial, someone between the ages of 18 to 29, I know quite a bit about my generation and the assumptions made about it. People view my generation as lazy, selfish, entitled, a “me-me-me” generation....
What is reality? Embrace reality, get a reality check, come back to reality. These common sayings seem to suggest there is some finite existence in an evident world. I do not mean to ask what is real....
I was involved in a rather juvenile dispute with a stranger on social media my sophomore year of college. I remember sitting with my feet pressed to the side of my desk and my chair tilted back against...
To do or not to do is a question people ask themselves multiple times a day. How are these decisions made? How often is a situation assessed and the more difficult way is chosen?
More often than not,...
Why do you like the music you do? It’s probably not a question you ask yourself very often, but I think it’s one worth asking. For most of us, I’m sure the question doesn’t even make sense. You...
The general consensus on the meaning of life is to find happiness — to do good things that make others and ourselves feel happy. Unfortunately, achieving happiness is a great struggle for many. A person...
