My First Witness to Tragedy
January 28th marks the anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I was 11-years-old at the time and in the fifth grade. I was also in the Young Astronauts Program—a program for school kids to get...
Category: Writing
The Celluloid Foxhole: Hollywood and the War
This is the title, rather a remolded title, of two papers I wrote while in college. One was for a class called American History through Film and the other, an expanded version of...
Poem: A Letter from the Trenches
Editors note: I’m posting a few poems I wrote a while back for a creative writing class. The following was published in I.U. South Bend’s literary magazine The Analecta. The first poem is from a German...
Poem: Why Must I Go
Editors note: I’m posting a few poems I wrote a while back for a creative writing class. This poem is about a Jewish mother’s horror as she is separated from her family after their arrival...
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