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The biggest thing I took out of my training as an educator is that we, as people, will never stop learning. As a teacher in a classroom,...

My favorite book changes all the time, usually based on what I’m reading at the moment. (Currently loving The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick...

Dreaming stars and my bed drops away. Blackness bleeds and burns blue - beautiful. Bewitched, I lift lead hands to catch the sky; it...

In 2012, “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries”, a modern, transmedia-focused retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, debuted on YouTube....

When you’re little, nursery rhymes make it seem like being the black sheep is a good thing; their wool is more valuable, after all....

Here I am, already struggling to think of something to say. Something that’s honest but new. Something that’ll stand above in an endless...

Something which once was common is now novel. Very few people travel on their own anymore, particularly not to places far from home. I...

Once upon a time, in a small village a long, long way from here, there was a girl. Simply an ordinary girl, or so she thought. So...

I have anxiety. I see a therapist, and a psychiatrist, and I’m not ashamed. I’ve been taking medication for close to six months now, and...

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears - So I can tell you about the magic that is Dungeons and Dragons. (Pun absolutely...