By Katelyn H., TIWP Student At 12 a.m. the memories replay like songs I don’t want to end, the worries crowding my mind, and the quiet truth that this year is slipping away. It’s strange how people who filled my days with laughter might slowly turn into old pictures, faded messages, and stories I tell […]
American Teen
By Emily Y., TIWP Student The clock is ticking, the pace is quickening. The kids are scraping tooth and nailto be unique.What if we could have knownwhat to do since childhood,like the instructions of a Lego set,putting our lives together,piece by piece,while knowing the end resultwould make a home? Comparison grips the studentswhen grades quietly define your […]
Everything as Otherwise
By Melissa Lombardo Grateful to Elizabeth Perlman for the ideas in her book “Word Magic” about trusting your intuition. Dedicated to “Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon (Poet, 1947-1995) because in the end, “It could have been otherwise.” What if you could believe that your intuition was always guiding you? What if you knew it to be […]
Loving a Country That Doesn’t Love You
By Rose U., TIWP Student From the moment Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the truth about the Watergate scandal, Nixon’s career was over. He resigned in disgrace on August 9, 1974, becoming the first and only ever president to resign. From that point on, his reputation was forever tarnished. Almost 50 […]
Maneater
By Rose U., TIWP Student Today’s the third date of the week, and it’s only Wednesday. I think this guy’s named Eric or Evan or Ethan or something like that. Hopefully he doesn’t greet me with my name so I don’t have to try to recall his, or maybe I can just mumble something quiet […]
Remember Me
By Kristin H., TIWP Student Remember meTo writeTo fightTo be or not to beA poetA knightA fighterA leaderA shining lightA disappointment.A failure.Alone.The individual.You’re alone, but you’re not aloneYou’re not by yourself.Who are you without anotherIf the tree falls with no one to listen?Will I be remembered?Have I done enough?Will you remember me,When my roots are […]
All We Ever Are
By Emily Y., TIWP Student “I’m sorry,” she whispered for the fourth time, sheepish and small. “All you ever are is sorry, and that’s not a bad thing, but know nothing is your fault.” The floor tilted and she lost all footing. Sorry was her way of shrinking and taking up less space, having a […]
The Every Man
By Rose Upson, TIWP Student Phillip Richardson was an every man. He worked a mundane job at a small accounting firm in Seattle. Everything about him was average; his kids, his wife, his personality, his tastes, his income, everything down to his height – an average 5’8. In a post-apocalyptic world, he kept things plain. […]
All the Things I’ve Become
By Zara Quiter, TIWP Student
The Question
By Kristen H., TIWP Student “There is no final test for how to be human — only the open question of how to be yourself which you must answer daily.” – Maria Popova It rises like light in a windowsill through a thin curtain—soft, unavoidable. Before words, before certainty. A quiet pressure beneath the ribs, gently […]
The Intuitive Voice 