by Aquinnah | Dec 15, 2017 | Praxis, Reading
This morning, at breakfast, a friend of mine made an excellent point. She’ll be moving to college at the end of this summer and, like most of the class of 2018, she is coming face to face with her future self. Because the same young women and men who felt that...
by Aquinnah | Dec 14, 2017 | Home, Writing
When my great-grandmother passed away in 2015, I wanted to do something to commemorate her extraordinary life. She was born during WWI and was 14 at the start of the Great Depression. She was 24-30 years old during WWII. She was 84 when I was born and on the 29th of...
by Aquinnah | Dec 13, 2017 | Writing
Good morning, friends, and welcome to Character Development 102! If you haven’t read “The Perfect Name” (Character Development 101) yet, check this out first. I had a lot of fun writing it, and I think you’ll like it, too. Derived from James Patterson’s system of...
by Aquinnah | Dec 12, 2017 | Praxis, Writing
Fun fact: The ability to learn an entire classical ballet variation from a YouTube video is a skill– and not many dancers have it. That’s why, at the end of every year, one of my instructors assigns a variation that her ballet classes are required to teach...
by Aquinnah | Dec 11, 2017 | Home, Reading
Fictional characters are constantly inspiring me to live my best life. There is something so priceless about opening a book and meeting these people who are just like me and not at all like me– simultaneously. We share hopes and dreams and fears. They marry...
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