There are a few books I’ve read that are so sad, so devastating, so traumatizing that I vow never to read them again. I almost always break that vow because devastating books are usually some of the best, and they deserve a re-read. I recently broke that vow last week by revisiting one of the…
Where does your super awesome and unique-sounding name come from? When my mom was pregnant with me she read the book Exodus by Leon Uris (not the one in the Bible although that one is also very good.) Out of all the characters in the book, one of them stood out to her. The character…
I wrote this for a speech contest following my first trip to Israel and 7 years of studying about it. In 1144 at the height of a brutal and bloody civil war between the grandchildren of William the Conqueror over who held the right to the throne, the body of a young boy was found…