Hoaglund’s Shell The critic and editor Phillip Lopate has many insights on the personal essay – how it functions, what makes it tick, how it is attractive to readers, and its various unique aspects. In his second aspect of the personal essay (the first is “The Conversational Element”), he defines “Honesty, Confession, and Privacy” as Read more…
Skiing Probs Me and my dad had just skied from the Gold Coast Express lift down to Siberia Express and we were ready to conquer my first-ever black diamond lift and trail. We got in line and waited until our turn to get onto the lift. The chair spun around the humongous gear and hit Read more…
Seneca the Younger and The Art of the Personal Essay, ed. Phillip Lopate “On Noise” is an essay that reveals the musings of a man, known as a classic Stoicist, statesman, dramatist and satirist. Twelve of his essays survive, and in The Art of the Personal Essay editor, Phillip Lopate, four are collected. In this Read more…
My grandfather, Kevin Lim, is a 75 year-old man happily retired living in Daly City with his wife. He has one son and two grandsons. Kevin Lim was born and raised in Korea but soon turned to America for a better life for his family. His story is one of struggle and ambition as he Read more…
Power by Adrienne Rich Living in the earth-deposits of our history Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earthone bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-oldcure for fever or melancholy a tonicfor living on this earth in the winters of this climate. Today I was reading about Marie Curie:she must have known she suffered Read more…
