When I visited Cuba three and a half years ago, I observed up close, for the first time, what a closed society looks like. Where there is no freedom of press, where all the news and billboards were nothing but propaganda. Though the United States does not always live up […]
Studying for the bar is no picnic. It’s time consuming, and intense. I knew this would be the case, and decided rather than going back to Michigan to study, to stay in Charlottesville. I figured all of my friends from law school would be here, and I would prefer the […]
Today I took the first of my last two finals in law school. I remember my first semester of law school. It was the first time I would actually spend some Saturday nights studying. This may have had to do with the fact that I was still in the process […]
At this time in the semester, perspective is imperative: Matthew 6:33.
Figures of history have gripped my imagination and retained my wonder since I was a little girl. A character didn’t have to do much to interest me. The very fact that people remember them piqued my curiosity. People like Abraham Lincoln, the Pharohs, Annie Oakley. People who existed before modern […]
“I am the bread of life.” John 6:48. I imagine it like this: The next morning, people’s growling stomachs began to wake them up. If they were anything like me, the first thing they thought about was the last thing they had to eat. For them it was a feast…of […]
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