Category Archives: Reflections
Sightseeing
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
My Corner of the World
Emo shots from a few years back. (Or maybe I was just watching out for snakes.) In my entry about spending my birthday in the Scottish Highlands, I mentioned slipping at the peak of a hill and rolling all the way down while on one of my childhood adventures with my cousins and brother. When […]
Bens, Glens and Lochs
See you later, tour bus… As I was ringing in 2012, I decided to start a personal tradition: I would schedule my most special vacation each year on my birthday. Special meaning not the sunbathing-on-the-beach kind of vacation. It has to be thrilling and something I have not previously experienced. I think it would be […]
9/11: Ten Years Later
On that sunny Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001, lecture finished early in Mr. Fraunberger’s AP Biology class. We were all just sitting around, talking, and waiting for the bell for second block to ring when our principal went on the PA system to announce that a plane had just crashed into one of the […]
