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ELIZABETH W

    Lizzy has been reading “The Art of the Personal Essay” edited by Philip Lopate, for some time now.  It is a lengthy collection of the best personal essays from the past four hundred years.  When she read Edward Hoagland’s “The Courage of Turtles”, Lizzy was inspired to respond to the essay with one Read more…

ELIZABETH W

      Once there was a whale named Spot. After a huge hurricane, he got washed up on the shore and couldn’t get back into the water. A few minutes later, a poor fisherman came to the beach that Spot was washed up upon and saw a huge whale laying there on the sand. Read more…

ELIZABETH W

  Lizzy has been reading “The Art of the Personal Essay” edited by Philip Lopate, for some time now.  It is a lengthy collection of the best personal essays from the past four hundred years.  When she read Edward Hoagland’s “The Courage of Turtles”, Lizzy was inspired to respond to the essay with one of Read more…