Vampire Vocab

Alinea was, quite simply, indescribable. I’m not even going to try to describe each course, you all will simply have to go there yourself. The amazement factors in when you think, not only of the food, but the care put into every aspect of your experience. The taste was unbelievable, of course, but there’s so [...]

It always occurs to me whenever someone dies in a book that maybe they didn’t do everything they would have liked. Or, when a person is a ghost, and they talk about all the things they wish had happened in their human life. Or when a person is about to die and they suddenly realize [...]

I try to reply to everybodies comment with a personalized response, but the undertone to all the replies that I’ve given to the comments that have stopped my heart with their kindness, staggered me with their beauty, touched me with how heartfelt they were, was this: Thank you. Thank you all so much for your [...]

I just met a ton of bloggers, all of whom were inspiring, interesting, funny, amazing in some way. I have collected enough free stuff that I probably could hand out an item to every American citizen and still have some left over. I have probably eaten twice my weight in those delicious chocolate covered strawberries. I have [...]

Denise has recently told me of a librarian that complained that very few childrens books these days had strong or main male characters to which I replied: “She must not read enough. Plenty of books I read have main male characters, and the only reason that it’s not written from their perspective is so that [...]

Last night, I went to a Beach Boys concert at Ravinia, which was followed by a seriously weird dream. But let’s start at the beginning. I was fully immersed in my book (One More Bite by Jennifer Rardin) while my father chatted away about what special activities my mom had planned for that evening. Therefore, [...]

In this heading, you have the reason why I didn’t post at all yesterday. After being rudely awoken from a pleasant dream (about vampires drinking Johnny Depp’s blood and then…well, back to the point.), I was foisted out of my bed and told to shower because we would be leaving in fifteen minutes. “To where?” [...]

This is a journal entry that I did on the second-to-last day of school when we had our field day. I was involved in the “watermelon eating contest” where you had to eat a slice of watermelon as fast as possible with your hands behind your back. As the teachers gathered the other people participating [...]