"Follow your passion." It's common advice for every soul-searching college student. If you stick with what you love, everything else will fall perfectly into place. But I'm starting to think maybe this isn't always the case. To be honest, people who chase their passions scare me. It seems as if they trust so fully in the one thing they love ... [Read More…]

I have never liked animals. I don't want a puppy, I think cats are the embodiment of Satan on earth and I've killed every fish I've ever owned. I am also a carnivore. Eating meat is one of the most fulfilling aspects of my life. Or, at least it was until I stopped eating meat altogether. It started this summer when a boring project at work drove ... [Read More…]

I've been in America nine weeks, which is the longest I've ever been in this country. For the most part, I think I've gotten used to the culture, the jokes and the fads. But just when I think I know America fairly well, it throws a new surprise at me. Recently, it's been showing me how things get real here, or in my case, how things get unreal. ... [Read More…]

I spent a week of summer vacation at the beach with my family. My parents, sister, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and I loaded our cars and caravaned to Surfside Beach, a tiny town nestled on the Texas coast. We stayed in a rented beach house named the "Boat House," a blue dwelling situated on Coconut Road off the Blue Water ... [Read More…]