Imagine this. You are eight years old. A silver bracelet with a red snake emblem rests on your left wrist. It has always been there. Your best friend doesn’t have that bracelet. In fact, not one single person you have ever met has that bracelet. It makes you feel both […]
When Friends Tell Stories Last weekend I was in Salzburg, Austria with my roommate and another friend of ours. I packed enough food for the entire weekend just in case I had difficulty finding food. In the car we were all talking and our friend started telling this story of […]
Even before college, there were numerous times I lived with others. Every summer I lived in a bunk at camp with around 15 other girls. I also went to sleepovers, traveled and stayed with my friends and their families on vacation, among many other shared living experiences on group trips […]
When I say I have traveled and I have done things that people thought someone like I couldn’t do, I mean it. Going to summer camp with food allergies was especially unique when I was a kid. Camp was my first real push into independence. My parents had the confidence […]
