How to Forget Your Shoes and Still Rock Your Day (A Firsthand Experience)

A picture of the only place it's socially acceptable to be barefoot.

YA Book Review: People Like Us {No Spoilers, I Swear}

When reading a mystery, there are certain things a reader must keep in mind. One, the narrator probably isn't well informed. There's only so much you can learn with one point of view, and often times the narrator doesn't know everything. Two, the narrator could be hiding the truth. We, as readers, unconsciously fall to …

Is It Truth or Religious Blackmail?

{Feel free to comment, as this can serve as a response post} Christianity. I've always identified as a Christian myself, and I still do. The message itself is good and holy, and with Easter coming up, I'm not giving way to the loss of my faith. I fully believe that the whole sha-bam happened Easter …

New Insta, Who ‘Dis?

Super excited to announce that I have opened an Instagram account for my blog and that I will follow back the first 50 people who follow me! The account is @didismagazine    I'm still in the process of building my feed, and I don't have many followers, but it's authentic. It's real. It's what you guys …

The Cafeteria Catastrophe

Hey guys! So I'm trying to start this new thing where I write about a moment in my day and give it a bit of a fiction twist. Hopefully all of this will lead to me really finding my voice as an author, something I'm really trying hard to find. That being said, here is …

What Is Enlightenment?

What is enlightenment? Are we even equipped to answer this? Is it arrogant for us to think we could know the answer to such a question? These are some of the questions we discussed in my History class, when discussing the European Enlightenment. We were talking about how the Europeans used inductive logic and thought …

New England Young Writers Conference!

Hey guys! Yesterday I got accepted into the New England Young Writer's Conference at Middlebury College, Breadloaf to be exact (I already know what you're thinking about that name :)) I don't know how selective it is, but I'm really glad I get to go. It's a weekend away in the rolling green hills of …

Book Response: Sh*t My Dad Says

  FUNNY STORY: I decided to read this book and write a response about it for school!! It was hilarious, my teacher said that she never laughed harder. Here's the response I wrote for school, nothing changed, nothing censored. Enjoy! A saying I heard often growing up is, “You can trust a man with a …

Book Review:Words In Deep Blue

Hey Guys, This book was, no doubt, one of the best books I have ever read. It was like reading poetry. The writing was gorgeous, and the ideas within the writing were even more gorgeous. This book deserves so much more than I can give it, but I'll try to fit a few of my …