Truth be told, I know very little about the life of Anthony Bourdain. I've seen a few episodes of his television series Parts Unknown, but that's about it. As many of you have seen or heard, his name made headlines earlier this month after his tragic passing. In the days following his death, I read [...]
"Mr. King!" A light-hearted, cheery voice calls in from outside my window. "Ya!" I call back, leaving my open laptop on the table and slipping on a pair of flip-flops. Stumbling out my front door, I walk toward the gate and turn the lock open. No one is out there, just the side of the [...]
It all started last week when one of my students, who I'll refer to as "D," performed the live reading at my school. Each day after lunch, my school does what we call "live reading," where a student from an assigned grade goes before a microphone and reads a story for the whole school to [...]
A strong, warm breeze blows in from the Sea as sizable waves crash on the surf. Plopping down onto a blanket covering the soft sand, I leaned back on an elbow and cast an eye to the nighttime sky. Gray clouds stifled the stars in the heavens, leaving me dissatisfied as I wondered what awe-striking beauty [...]
Picture this: You're sitting in your living room and all the lights are out. A storm is raging in the night outside. Rain is pounding heavily on the roof while on the window pane, droplets nonchalantly race down the glass. The trees are swaying, surrendering to the storm's strong gusts of wind. A crack of [...]
A rush of rain on the tin roof roused me from my sleep. Reaching over I touched my phone to see it list 5:43-two minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off. I quickly sat up and shut off the alarm so I wouldn't hear that dreadful sound so early in the morning. The [...]
A car honked as it drove past, veering over a non-existent center line on the road to get around me. I paused to turn and watch the car go past me, acknowledging his courtesy honk letting me know he was passing. It’s a habit of pedestrians I noticed almost immediately upon arriving here. There are [...]
The sun was beating down so that even the shade of the front porch couldn’t provide relief from the afternoon heat. I stood up and went inside, turning on the stand-up fan in my room and opening the windows. At least with the fan I can keep cool while I lay down on my bed. [...]
The plane accelerated on the runway and I held my breath. I knew that the moment the wheels lifted off the ground at Miami International Airport, only time would tell when I would set foot on American soil again. The plane lifted off and goosebumps ran down my arms because it was then that my 27-month [...]