People tell you not to dwell on the past for too long, to learn from your mistakes and move forward. But I’ve found myself thinking about the past a lot lately. The summer after fourth grade where my brother and I each had a friend to spend a week at …
My parents got me a copy of Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret for my last birthday. I read it in a day and finished with mixed thoughts. I mulled over the fact that the main character talks to God despite belonging to no religion. She looks …
Hello, I’m Leah G. Alfonso. I write so that I may speak. Two things inspired my looking for an answer to the question I ask in the title. The first happened a while ago when I was browsing through my Facebook feed. I stumbled on a status update of a …
