(Published in my college newspaper, the Randolph-Macon Yellow Jacket, in 2008) Imagine wandering into the depths of a neotropical rainforest and taking in the sight of hundreds of plants in vibrant greens towering high above your head. Imagine inhaling a strong musk and seeing its owner, the pig-like peccary, trot past into another patch of Read More
Category: Essays
Commentary on life, travel, and the world
Mathematics
I should have known all along that I was destined to be a star math student. After all, my father and I had re-invented hide-and-seek, with a mathematical flare, when I was in the second grade; I’d hide, and when he found me, I was tasked with solving a square root problem. Yet as I Read More
Man and Inhumanity
(Written for a college English course in 2005.) We take our children to Sunday school and guide them on a path of respect and the “Golden Rule,” instilling in them a sense of morality, of right and wrong. Our lives operate around ethics; these are the maxims which lead any decent human being to make Read More