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Love cake and skateboards. Dislike people who are apathetic and/or brainless. Need more time to write. Need less time to drive and sit in traffic.

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Health & Fitness > Health & Fitness Organizations A look at the American Heart Association (AHA): 6 of 9

The American Heart Association: Hoops for Heart Organizing an event is like writing a story - you start with a blank screen of possibility and a brilliant idea. Diverse elements become a timeline of activities just as words become sentences. So when six energetic Century High School students - Christine Kieu, Ginny Nguyen, R... More..
Creative Writing > Songs Songs: Protest: 24 of 35
Brochure Take my picture And put me in the brochure My cousin's in the Navy She brought me an afghan If you got a minute I'll show you my tattoos This one's a hedgehog And here I got a turtle with rockets Take my picture And put me in the brochure I don't have cancer But I came from an unwed mother She said not to fuss Our p... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The tragedy of love: 116 of 169

Don't Mind The Abrasions There's unpolluted fantasy in my head And the world keeps peering in They abrade my skin with perfected hubris Hoping to see some tender, strife-free crannies inside But just as they catch a glimpse, They tear a hole wide open To pump some awful in You should ride downtown on vintage green bicycle An... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Snapshots: 70 of 100

Take my picture And put me in the brochure My cousin's in the Navy She brought me an afghan If you got a minute I'll show you my tattoos This one's a hedgehog And here I got a turtle with rockets Take my picture And put me in the brochure I don't have cancer But I came from an unwed mother She said not to fuss Our pool held ... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: The future: 15 of 21
Rillian stepped over Dung's stiffening corpse. He thumbed the barrel-catch and flipped down the barrel of his Smith and Wesson Schofield revolver in one quick motion with his left hand; six empty cartridge shells were thrown out as the lifter pressed against the extractor raising it from its seat in the cylinder. Squatting, ... More..
Education > Early Childhood Ed The educational benefits of storytelling: 24 of 29
Have you ever wondered whether imagination is genetically determined or nurtured by one's environment? Well, Penny Walter is the proof. It is both. Her mother flew around the world in Walter's bedroom, powered only by wings on her boots, as her father read enthusiastically from Paul Galdone's The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and... More..
Arts & Humanities > History of Ideas The role of narrative and storytelling for humans: 5 of 6
A Storyteller Profile: Will Hornyak Will Hornyak's work as a newspaper reporter started in high school and continued until his mid-twenties, helping to form his storyteller's sensibilities. His favorite assignment was finding interesting people, interviewing them, and then writing a story. Eventually a job opportunity as a c... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Do unto others: 127 of 134

In the lightest upper up of mucky brown yuck We downy did a brightly shinning darkened deed of distastefully blackened raw revenge Our strike has been miserably misplaced, turned downside up in the full daylight darkness of our lit-up falseness fueled by untruthful mis-truths known in non up-is-down places to be bright shinn... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Unique Gifts Inexpensive gifts you can make: 16 of 16
Yesteryear & Beyond Much has been spun, many pretty phrases produced, packaged and repackaged, in an attempt to manufacture holiday spirit off the department store selves leaving the true spirit of the season trampled by product-driven consumer impulse. So, what can be done to push back against the constant assault of bu... More..
Arts & Humanities > Theater & Drama Public performance: The value of live storytelling: 6 of 6
Almost from the beginning Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard listened to stories. For Duddy it was stories and songs her grandmother performed in the living room, while Duddy perched on the couch. "My grandmother was a great storyteller," said the native Oregonian. Howard's dad would read to him at bedtime from a dog-eared book... More..