Summer Inbetween

This is an introduction to my unessay- a photostory about the summer of high school graduation and the nostalgia and movement that defined the long four months. It was a pivotal point in my life and I was (fortunately) blissfuly unaware of this at the time. I think having never faced such definitive change before, …

Something Unsaid

The visuals of Allison Bechdel's Fun Home remind me of the laziness and slight boredom of a long vacation. The sort of images you'd see in a film about a very hot summer. Images of insignificant actions, like playing cards on a back porch or tanning out near a pool. Their narrative is in the …

When You Leave You Lose a Big Thing

Homesickness is a strange feeling. It feels like heavy oppressive loss. It feels like icky gooey discomfort, like syrupy sticky kind of itchy in your own feet shuffling pacing back and forth changing hair, clothes, nail polish, food in the fridge, bedsheets, eyeliner, midnight tv show, walk-to-class album, don't know who you are frenzy discomfort. …

I’m Not a Sentimental Man

Joey moved from place to place his whole life. Never stopping to settle, just pausing till the next move. Half way through junior year his dad's job took him and his family to the ever growing city of Dubai. We met on the first day of senior year 9 years after I had moved to …

A Moving Home

"What is a home" can be a jarring question. It seems like something simple to wonder, but its complex and confusing and at times conflicting. Jeannette Walls asks herself this question in "The Glass Castle", and I like to believe this is the question that prompted her to write the memoir. We are met with …

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