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  Great Expectations by Charles Dickes

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  “Great Expectations” Review I did not have great expectations for the book “Great Expectations.” As a matter of fact, while finding out that students had to read this “masterpiece” over summer vacation, I groaned to my greatest-teenager extent. I did not know much about the book; only...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Ode to Barney

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  “I love you!” The emotionless words echo in my ears, your corny songs are like taunting jeers. You are a big purple Dinosaur with thunder thighs, green spots, yellow toes, and heavily lashed eyes. Your voice is torture, torment to my heart, how I long to rip you apart. And yet, my baby ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Big Day

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  The rant I was on had started as soon as I got home from work, and seemed unlikely to cease. As my fist came down on the dresser for the hundredth time, I, yet again, shouted in a flurry of raised and angry words. Tina, my wife and soul mate, was patiently watching me. “I’m telling you, Tina...
• Opinion > Current Events / Politics
  The Highest Controversy in the World

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  It is a topic that inevitably comes up with every solemn conversation; one I have often heard my parents broach upon with friends over coffee, dinner, or a simple walk. Somehow, (when outside of politics), it comes up casually and conversationally… although this question evokes the highest controv...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  She is SO Cute!

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  What picture does the word “cute” evoke in your mind? I see a baby opening it’s large, curious eyes, giggling an infectious laughter. I hear the squeal of tiny puppies, as they trip over one another in competition for their mother’s milk. I see a Toy-Story school set, which will one day be ...
• Opinion > Current Events / Politics
  The Ethics of War

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  It is an extreme irony that while any sane person on Earth yearns for peace, it is the thing that is near impossible to achieve. With shootings, attacks and bombardments happening at this very moment -battles that have been going on for years- a wakeup call brings many to realize that worldwide peac...
• Nonfiction > Heroes
  Anat Gori

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  Israel is not an easy place to live in- a natural born citizen alone deals with war, political conflicts, and extreme religious differences. Although I was born in Israel, I moved away too young to adjust to the confident, aggressive, and independent personality that is a must in the area. It was wo...
• Opinion > School / College
  Homeschooling is Not the Answer

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  School is tough. The pressure to be socially accepted is overwhelming. The need to be perfect is unbearable. The school year is a time in which you are enveloped in a realm of constant work, drama, and competition. Academics and homework are exertion enough. Socializing is work, too. In “the lan...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Life's Not Fair

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO

  Life’s not fair. What an annoying thing to be told. Perhaps it’s under specific circumstances that make that three-worded phrase so irritating. A husband tells his spouse that after a denied promotion. A mom announces this to her son when his twin brother gets the cooler action-figure. Pare...
• Art /
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  SUNLIGHT

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO
• Art /
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  Ducks on a Pleasant Day

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO
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  My neighborhood Paradise!

  

  By C_B_Mia, boulder, CO