Racketeered

My piece "I lead a quiet rebellion." was published in the January issue of TeenInk. If you're unfamiliar with TeenInk, it's a publication for writers by writers than runs solely on submissions by its readers. Published as "My Quiet Rebellion," my piece was featured on the cover and had a prominent spot in the Non-Fiction section of the magazine. It nearly had a page dedicated to it, but since a bit of my work was edited out, it shares a page with an article talking about how to buy a plunger. Uh. I suppose I can't complain, but I saw that and laughed about it hard.I submitted a few things to TeenInk just to see what could happen and I n...

A lot in my life has changed since the last entry, and I'm very happy to say that the changes are just what I needed.Somewhere in the middle of the summer, I made the choice of becoming a vegetarian, which wasn't all that difficult, thankfully. For the first week or two the only thing I missed was chicken nuggets, which hardly qualifies as meat anyway. Somewhere after that, I lost all cravings for meat. It's been a good process, and I've felt a lot better and I've lost the weight I wanted to as well. While I was at my heaviest, I made some angsty declaration that I needed to lose fifty pounds, and I met that goal a few weeks ago by changin...

I've finally graduated.The last month was spent finishing up homework and filming a movie for AP Literature. I was covered in eyeliner and dirt, and was trapped in a cage for a large portion of the filming. While the finished product received a 96% and was far better than anything else our peers produced, I'm not sure if all of the torture was worth it.This summer seems as though it will be promising.