We all dream of travelling around the world, but how many of us actually go out there and do it? The secret is to do it when you’re young, and taking a gap year is a perfect time. The only problem is that few of us have the money or the means to pay our […]
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Sometimes I feel like I’m drifting: in outer space, through life. I can’t keep up with myself because I am more lost than wanderer. Oh, but you with your whimsical lines, “we are cosmically bound to each other by the stardust in our bones,” make the universe shift so, I am reminded that home is […]
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She said she yearned for adventure, To discover the great unknown, But she needed to escape the pressure And sought a new place to call home. The bags she packed were lighter Than the ones beneath her eyes. But even then she was a fighter, Driving ‘til she saw pink skies. Her destination was a […]
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Paris. Often known as the city of love, I discovered it was so much more in the two weeks that I spent there improving my French and enjoying the start of my summer with one of my best friends. No matter where we went — whether it was sitting by the Seine watching the boats […]
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“Her Smile” is one of the July Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. I felt the hay against my feet and legs. I was lying with my neck on a thick wooden beam that separated the different sections of the stable. It wasn’t the most comfortable position, but for the […]
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Charlotte Eriksson shares the story behind her new single “The Fall.” Read about how she overcame her writing struggle after months of feeling like a “bird stuck on the ground” as she began to doubt whether she had anything left to say. And then one night changed everything. . . . You can […]
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