Ever since I was little, I remember my mom in the kitchen with paint on her jeans and a paintbrush behind her ear. She loves to paint any and everything. She’d paint my jeans (making me the cutest 3rdgrader in school), she paints canvases, watercolors, Christmas orname...

For months I had studied Roman art and architecture and how they work together, terms like nave, arch, radiating chapels, oculus, and altar had become part of a vocabulary that only a few had heard and an even fewer had read. It was a side of me that I loved, but I als...

The alarm blares at 7:00 AM.I snooze it. The alarm blares at 7:10 AM. I snooze it. The final alarm blares at 7:15 AM, waking me and my roommate up.I can tell she is pissed; Tuesdays are the days she gets to sleep in. I stumble around looking for my glasses. I can’t fin...