Personal Essay

Portfolio of Published Work

Below, find all of my most recently-published writing pieces. This is mostly a portfolio of my journalism, with the occasional nod to work from my other service categories.

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Heart in the hand

Mercy

I’m sorry for that place you last lived, if that was living. I hated its tired floral décor and it’s endless wings, strewn with wheel

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Laughing children friends at green meadow, rural scene. Boy gives flowers, first love

My First Crush

Starting in the first grade I had a crush on Isaiah. I wrote his last name instead of mine on my journals, little hearts encasing

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honeymoon couple travel on yacht

On Love and Cruise Ships

Seeking vacation on her polished decks, passengers filled the Costa Concordia to the brim. Using the hand of a crewmember to lift themselves onboard, passengers

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Handsome male fashion model sitting outdoors

Dimple Chin

The first thing my grandmother noticed when I was born was my chin. She held me close and stroked my face slightly with her pinky,

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Autumn road

Cow Lake

  The horizon stretched itself thin across the windshield, endless and unencumbered. It snaked to my right out the passenger window and I reached for

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Tree

Ripen and Release

In the yard of my family’s first house grew an avocado tree creeping up like a great praying mantis. We waited eagerly for its sporadic

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Japanese cranes, Hokkaido, Japan

The Crane

She starts as a square piece of paper, pink side up. Crease and open again.  She gasps for air. Crease and open again. Her limbs

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Rusty heart

Used Heart Shopping

Last month, I was hunting for a good used car at a reasonable price. This was not an easy task. I mean, it’s a good

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Jolly girls gossiping at class

Gossip Girl here

Hey world, its Gossip Girl. I’m not a good show, in fact, I’m despicable. But still, I’m remarkably addicting. Why?  Well, Alexa has been watching

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2012

If ya’ll go by the Romans, we are days from the new year. And as many do before hanging up the new calendar, I’ve been

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UW Bothell: Swipe for Whales

In this blog post for University of Washington Bothell, I wrote about a new online game to track whales with citizen science.