Grief is an emotional state of being when an individual faces loss. Though it is commonly associated with the state of mourning when a loved one dies, grief can occur in other circumstances as well. Sometimes we grieve periods of our lives when we change from one season to the…

I first heard of the town of Lake Los Angeles from a film director and teacher of mine, Mike Ott, who made a film titled the same. When I watched this film for the first time, I was fifteen years old, going to CalArts in Valencia, California for a summer…

You were right. But you already knew that. You knew that long before I did. We know in different ways, I’m sure, but combined we know everything. Perhaps it took you time to know what you know now. It took me time. You already knew that too. I’m sorry for…

It has been little over a month since I left. It has been almost two weeks since I came out about the abuse. It has been a week since I’ve been home. …

When I was in high school, there were two kids I knew who had died within a couple of days of each other. The first was a boy. He had brought a water bottle of vodka to school then left at lunch, headed down the freeway at a hundred and…