Death is a fleeting concept. Perhaps we were born crying because we knew that we would die someday in this unpleasant world. But during...

Suppose that evil exists as the denial of good. Does that disprove the existence of God? I argue that the existence of evil does not...

The bonfire, a pep rally before The Game, occurs every year, a tradition of Woodberry Forest. Like the last two years I have...

On January 16th, 2025, my paternal grandfather passed away. It was not a surprise—his brain cancer was so advanced that the doctors could...

The purpose of life seems to be obscured, and it is the nature of human kind to attempt to achieve happiness. Yet many nowadays, in their...

Today, I was having a conversation with a teacher, and at the end of the conversation, he said something I did not quite understand, and...

One summer, I served as a mentor for children at a Buddhist summer camp. On many afternoons we took the children, who were mostly eight...

Today I have finished a first revision of a short story I am working on. I added more to the background and general 'backstory' to make...

I sat in front of the piano and began my performance. I played Winter Wind Etude—one of Chopin’s grandest and most technical pieces. I...

One Saturday, at around seven or eight in the evening, I had been writing and playing piano in the art building of my high school when I...

What I think is an important part of being a person is accepting the truth. Acceptance is the first step to change a bad habit, the first...

(It's not a coincidence that this story has the same name as the Winter Wind etude. I have tried to capture the feeling of defiance as...

I have just finished my first week of my junior year in high school, and I felt that the changes I have had over the summer influenced my...

I have recently finished the book I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, and as I have written before, it has prompted and interested...

So here is part two of my reflection. If you haven't read the first part of the reflection or the summary of my trip, check them out in...

I participated in a game that was sort of a more realistic and upgraded version of monopoly. It was quite different, actually. This was a...

In my last blog I wrote about where I went in the summer and descriptions of places I went. If you haven't read that, check it out in my...

From July 8-18th, I worked as a volunteer at a summer camp which worked with children from the ages 8-16. The main goal of the summer...

Written November 2023 Once, during an autumn vacation, I traveled to a mountain village whose exact location eludes my memory. The trees...

Written: October 2023 Sometime in the dead of night, rain falls, hammering the roof of my hut. Thunder booms in the distance, and slowly,...