Home Is Where You Make It
Where is home? Well I've always said that home is where you make it, but Versailles, Indiana is the place I was raised at and it is where I continue...
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The Long and Winding Way
Every path, no matter how long and winding it can be, has a horizon. Every long walk, no matter how tiring and tedious it is for a small child walking with her parents, ends at an unforeseen destination,...
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True Colors of Castro
I came out to myself during college. I never accepted my sexuality prior and this drove me to the point of madness. I desired to know and understand who I was as a gay and I knew that the only place where...
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Welcome to the Ojai Valley
The Ojai Valley is surrounded by mountains and hills and the small town lies among the...
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A Life in a Year
As I took my first few steps back on American territory, my eyes filled with tears of joy and my nose filled with the familiar smell of the freshly mopped airport floor. Within those few seconds,...
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Alaska 2012
The moments I spent in Alaska are some to always be told but not...
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Building character through judo
I stare with awe as I enter The Grand Amway Plaza Hotel with my dad and sister. As my eyes dart in all directions while I take in the hotel’s overwhelming size and grandeur, I laugh at how...
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