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The name's Heather. I prefer to be addressed online as MT or Muted, though. I'm a nerdy pansexual student in my late twenties. Recently admitted to graduate school in Lund, Sweden. I'm from the Midwest originally, about 3 hours southwest of Chicago.

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story: 7 of 392
"Gardens have memories," she told me, her voice shaky and tired from the effects of chemotherapy. I was too young to really understand the rigors of her treatments, but her statement made me wonder if this was going to be one of the days where she seemed to be on a far different planet than the one I inhabited. I was about fi... More..
Food & Drink > Cuisine & Food (Other) What would you improve about fast food (menu, service, packaging, anything...)?: 1 of 33
We're accosted with fast food advertisements every day, be they on billboards, TV commercials, or the restaurants themselves advertising specials as we drive by. Our society has turned places like McDonald's, Taco Bell, and KFC into household names. For a quick, cheap meal in a pinch, fast food establishments really can... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: I can't reach you: 2 of 24
Shadows descend from every thought shading what was covered by stars. I don't know how to find my way back, but I know that you are somewhere within that fading. I will not call off the search. Every star guides me a fraction of a second closer to where you've forgotten how to reflect it back to me. In a life defined... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Are we safer now than we were immediately after 9/11, or have we just been lucky?: 9 of 72
While many Americans may feel safer since 9-11 due to the large number of new laws and security measures passed, the safety is merely superficial. Indeed, many of these ridiculous measures have been nothing more than placebo effects...unless of course you truly feel that bringing shampoo on a plane and giving the government a... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Long distance relationships: 12 of 66
I've seen stars collide with themselveswithout giving it a thought,a plethora of light cascading from a single mergingtoo distant to be clear.Sometimes I'm reminded of that brilliance when I look at you, and sometimeswhen you exist for me only through phone linesand memory of your smell,I'm left hopingfor the tiniest bit of l... More..
Education > Distance Learning In terms of cost, convenience and academic potential, is an online education more beneficial than a traditional education?: 1 of 4
Online education is not for everybody. In fact, it takes a special breed of student to really succeed in an online program. They must be dedicated, committed to furthering their education, and possess enough self-discipline to meet deadlines and course assignments on their own time. While any student needs to set goals and to... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Seeds: 32 of 106
Prisons without bars where I am captured in a forest of dead and dying trees, resisting the fires only through flood. I long for the sound of your voice, but all I hear are the whispers of dead and dying leaves. Burn it all down and reseed. More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Music: 48 of 153
Such an emptiness hereWhere once there was love;Such a raging fire, awakening the darkFrom the only solace it can imagine.You at the piano,And me forever on the floor,Struggling to piece togetherWhat is broken beyond repair.Would that I couldBut relive a solitary secondIf only to make thePiano play. More..
Health & Fitness > Emotional Health & Wellbeing The health benefits of breathing deeply: 5 of 11
Breathing. Something so very simple that we barely notice we're doing it at all the great majority of the time, right? This is only natural, since the process itself is one that is automatic and necessary to life. Thinking about how you breathe, however, have benefit your life in many ways.Breathing is the body's way of takin... More..
Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) True gardening stories: Memories of a loved one and gardening: 15 of 31
She loved carnations. As a child, I never much cared for them, preferring instead the glaring beauty of the roses growing not far away. I couldn't understand why she would sit there in her lawn chair, leaning back so she could turn her head to look at the carnations as the day went on.As she got sicker by the day, the carnati... More..