Keegan — The Opposite of Loneliness

May 31st, 2012
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Marina Keegan
Marina Keegan had something to say and she said it extremely well as a writer for the Yale Daily News.
Before graduating from Yale this month, Marina wrote the below column to her classmates, reflecting on her positive college experience, her sense of life’s possibilities and the nervousness of going out into the real world and following her dream of being a writer.
As the mother of a recent college graduate, I recognize what she was feeling when she wrote this beautiful column and have heard some of the same thoughts from my son.  Tragically, Keegan’s prescient words … Read More

DC’s Bucket List

May 11th, 2012
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Katherine Frey/The Washington Post Washington, DC is my home and I love it, but it is not a particularly creative city.  The nation’s capital has many beautiful monuments and museums but as a city it doesn’t go out of it’s way to nurture artistic talent even though people who live here and visit here crave public art. Instead, government is the business of this city and one would sometimes think that the only people who work here are faceless bureaucrats, politicians, and lobbyists who blab on television and telephones or stare at computers screens all day with nothing else on… Read More

Goals & Dreams

March 26th, 2012
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You are never too old to set another goal or  to dream a new dream                                                          ~ C. S. Lewis… Read More