I frequently look up at the stars at night because it is a reminder to me that our everyday worries are pretty insignificant. When I think about my life in the big picture…
A neighborhood mom reminded me, “Don’t forget, you are the chocolate chip in the chocolate chip cookie, you don’t need to stand out more than you already do!”Who knew there was so much…
My unlikely adventure with a special “flaunter”began about nine years after I graduated from Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences. I knocked around for a few years before deciding to head back…
Last summer, I got a letter from our soon-to-be ten-year-old daughter from sleep-away camp. It was six sentences long and about fifty words. A few were misspelled and some punctuation was missing, but…
A few months ago, right after I finished my first year of law school at Brooklyn Law my Mom and I decided to go on a trip to Boston. We were so excited…
I was getting a manicure a couple of years ago when the woman sitting next to me suggested to me that Botox might be very helpful. She was referring to my right hand.…
In 2017 the Chinese Horoscope includes the Zodiac sign of the Goat. The Goat has the qualities of her defects, and the defects of her qualities; she’s very intelligent, insightful and visionary. Though…
Meet the Teen Recipients of The RBC “Flaunt It” Award for 2017. Featured on ArtandWriting.org
Preface September 1970 “Let me see what I have.” If I had been old enough to speak, never-mind understand what my father was saying, I might have found it intriguing…
Kid Reporters’ Notebook. Flaunt It! June 2017 Media
“This piece represents the hardships that I have endured in my life. The textures, found objects, spray paint and even the glitter offer a glimpse into who I am as a girl becoming…
I remember your eyes like juniper and mint leaves, the eyes you said held me when I was just a twinkle in your mind. Narrowing at the girl who refused to sit on…
Five, six, seven, eight: a count off before you begin a dance. This was screamed every time we’d start a dance at a theatre company I’d lost interest in two years ago. The…