"There's something about summer, isn’t there?” * * * You put your head down on the table, simply wishing for the time to go quickly. The boat rises and falls with each wave of the deep sea. In your previous experiences, rides across the deep sea hasn’t exactly been forgiving. Rising to your feet, you [...]
"There’s something about summer, isn’t there?” * * * You sit down on the concrete, national-colored stoop that runs across the front of the open-air market next door. The sun is burning hot, not a cloud in the sky as you take cover in the only spot of shade under the overhang. There was very [...]
“There’s something about summer, isn’t there?” * * * Your feet dangle off the edge of a small boat, weighed down by a pair of long flippers and a snorkel mask that stifles your breathing. Pushing off with your hands you drop below into the cool, clear waters of the Caribbean Sea. Swimming away from [...]
Summer. There’s something about that word, isn’t there? It brings to mind sunshine, fresh-cut grass, baseball, and burgers on the grill during a 4th of July cook-out. It’s reveled by children as a time away from school; a time to run wild and free from the responsibilities school places on them. It’s hot, sunny days [...]
Ever wonder what happens when a male volunteer spends a whole week at a girls’ empowerment camp? Well, now that I’ve completed a week serving as a counselor at Peace Corps Grenada’s Camp G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World), let me tell you: I sit on the cool tile, back against the railing of the balcony. [...]
Underneath my feet was a simple concrete bridge, a trickling stream running beneath it. Fallen leaves decorated its well-worn surface. To go straight from the bridge on the path before me would mean reaching the well-known and breath-taking second waterfall in Concord. But the path to the right of the bridge, hardly noticeable to the [...]
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 [...]