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Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email To reflect on something is to give deep thought to experiences that may have left a profound effect on you. For the ...

Five years ago, I began my Common Application essay with the following sentence: “To quote Ferris Bueller, ‘Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it ...

Cadets face numerous obstacles during their tenure at the U.S. Military Academy, which forces them to overcome those plights — whether personal, academic or physical — while building a character base ...

Stuff happens. Our days cannot all be sunny. We will always have to deal with people whose personalities rub us the wrong way. Everyone suffers loss, experiences grief, and goes through their own ...

If there are genres my writing fits, then essays, creative nonfiction, memoir and poetry — maybe proems, as Brian Doyle calls prose poems — may describe the kind of writing I do. Oh yes, and letters.

Taseer matches his memories of the places from past visits with present-day sights, smells and sounds to make sense of a world transformed.