Category: Essays

In his book, The Fault In Our Stars, John Green wrote that “Funerals…are for the living.” It is hard to argue against that perspective, the dead are gone and, regardless of your faith, beyond something so trivial. The point Green makes is that we, the living, use funerals (or memorials, services, celebrations of life, etc) …

Growing up, all I knew about my Grandma Mavis’ boyfriend was that they had been together almost as long as I had been alive and that he liked children to be seen, not heard. So when I ended up moving in with my grandma in third grade I remember feeling a little bit of apprehension …

Alright, I have to get on a bit of a soapbox here because I recently had a conversation with someone very important to me that I never really thought I would have to have. I kind of assumed that the topic we were talking about was a basic, fundamental concept of relationship knowledge, and that …