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Crazy Julie
I was a very shy child. I never talked to adults, and I did not socialize with children who weren’t my classmates. Julie slowly changed all of that. I met Julie when I was two years old. Julie, a...
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Breaking the Barriers of Leadership
My grandmother is a petite woman, barely five feet tall, with a tiny face, narrow eyes and a thin, slender figure. She lives a modest life, is not married and shares a house in San Francisco with...
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Looking Through the Eye of London
I stand there, at the top of the world, and look down through the glass below me. It’s raining, of course. Typical London weather. The rain has been relentless since the day I arrived. Nevertheless,...
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Awakening
Interfaith Connections is a column for teens to dialogue about how their faith or wisdom tradition influences their view of life’s big questions. In each issue, three teens from different backgrounds...
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A Review of Wonder
There are kids in my middle school, like in every school, that just don’t fit in with the crowd. Some are disabled. Some have a mental disorder or a facial disfigurement. They are hidden among the...
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Rainstorms in Guatemala
I love turning on the windshield wipers and driving. I love checking out of class to dance alone, and I especially love standing still and listening to it fall. At home, the rain is cold and it is...
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Plastic Tractors
First, the plastic tractors. Once, they raced, wheels churning excitedly over asphalt— Down the hill, Mounted by me and my whooping friends— Now the tractors sit, neglected and forlorn In the...
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Staying Alive: A Review of the Hunger Games
After I first saw The Hunger Games movie, adapted from the novel by Suzanne Collins, I could only describe it as “awesome!” I watched the movie a few years ago with my friends and dad. On the way home...
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Fulfillment
When I was asked by my choral teacher to perform in front of a director and producer for Carnegie Hall’s production of The Sound of Music, I didn’t fully grasp why I had been selected or what it would...
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Finding Comfort in Numbers
Interfaith Connections is a column for teens to dialogue about how their faith or wisdom tradition influences their view of life’s big questions. In each issue, three teens from different backgrounds...
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It Ended at Wounded Knee
It all ended that bitter December day at Wounded Knee, where the wind perpetually blew across the great frozen expanse of prairie, barren and remorseless. Eddies of snow propelled by the frigid...
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