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An American Success Story: Karthika Audinet

Karthika Audinet believes design "is the perfect balance between being artistic and giving meaning to your art." She studied textile design at the National Inst...

An American Success Story

This summer, a few friends and I are taking a road trip across the country on a mission to find American success stories. We didn’t have enough money to do it o...

An American Success Story: Brooke Lanier

Meet Brooke Lanier, a painter, art educator, and curator who owns Brooke Lanier Fine Art, a gallery, studio, and classroom in Philadelphia. She's just now putti...

An American Success Story: Brooke Lanier

This summer, a few friends and I are taking a road trip across the country on a mission to find American success stories. We didn’t have enough money to do it o...

An American Success Story: Len Goldstein

This summer, a few friends and I are taking a road trip across the country on a mission to find American success stories. We didn’t have enough money to do it o...

An American Success Story: Len Goldstein

Before setting out, we had to stop by Keezer's Classic Clothing in Cambridge to pick up some formalwear so we'd look our best on the road. In 1978, Len Goldstei...

The Cheesecake Factory gave me and two friends money to work on a personal project. Here’s what we did with it.

In 1978, David M. Overton opened a small restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. He insisted on doing things his own way, selling his mother’s cheesecakes in a...

The Cheesecake Factory is giving me and two of my friends money to do a road trip across the country for a personal project. Here's what we're doing.

This summer, a few friends and I are taking a road trip across the country on a mission to find American success stories. We didn’t have enough money to do it o...

Fueled by Cheesecake (Sponsored Roadtrip)

A couple weeks ago, I came up with a crazy idea, to see the country and talk to some interesting people along the way, on a cross country road trip. The problem...

Interviews with Strangers: Olatz

https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmZrMzq5N2DhNj3ZqbS1mU57rb8h2RqGfCpEMchvJiWaic Olatz “I am a girl of 22 years who loves music because I play the cello and the piano,...

Interviews with Strangers: Olatz

In this first episode of my new series, I ask Olatz personal questions and record her responses. It's a knock-off of Humans of New York, but you get to see the ...

(flashfiction) Distance Between Strangers

Distance Between Strangers I miss you. The last time I rode in an Uber with you, we were silent. It was a pool, so there was a stranger additional to the driver...

Universal Love: A Story About the Shakers Written in Early Modern English, structured off the Book of Matthew (part 1)

The First Testimonie of Christ’s Second Apperynge Ch. 1 The Father is first in the order of the newe creation, and the Mother is the second, the glorie, wisdom,...

I wrote a fake history essay about the politics of setting up a Mars colony (part 2/2)

Read Part 1 here Opening a New Frontier Within the next year, Congress passed a detailed plan for America’s involvement terraforming the red dot Romulus worship...

I wrote a fake history essay about the politics of setting up a Mars colony (part 1/2)

Opening a New Frontier The US Senate has twice decided to make a mighty empire out of the first, and sometimes faltering, modern experiment in Democracy. Both o...

This is an essay I wrote on Harry Potter for a Harvard class

Harry Potter and the Master Race: A Deconstruction of the Superiority of Wizards over Muggles I. Introduction J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has been heral...

Living in the present moment: Why I'll never have kids

Months before he embezzled our money and ran away to Las Vegas, my instructor with a penchant for ending lessons with preachy, value-rich and truism-filled spee...

Friends Who Haven't Met Yet (flashfiction)

I’m lucky to have met so many friends and even more lucky to have so many more unknown, untapped, so many friends who I haven’t yet met.  The first time I ...

Friends Who Haven't Met Yet -- Traveling Alone (flashfiction)

I’m lucky to have met so many friends and even more lucky to have so many more unknown, untapped, so many friends who I haven’t yet met. The first time I saw he...

Altruistic Genie, part 9 -- Prom Night

Altruistic Genie > “Do a kindness unto another person for a pain of equal and opposite proportion unto yourself.” Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part...