I am an extremely curious person, and living in the age of Google and Wikipedia has only increased my obsession with fact checking and reading as much as possible about things that I’ll probably never need to know about. We’ve all been there before– you look up something on Wikipedia and then see a link…
Yesterday I read a tragic article about a 13-year old girl, Natalie, who died from anaphylactic shock due to accidentally ingesting peanut butter. After reading the first few sentences of the article, I grew angry with several questions racing through my mind. Why the hell didn’t they have an EpiPen on hand? Why did she…
Ten years ago I was a freshman in high school, sitting in my first period cooking class in Fairfax, VA. My teacher turned on the television at about 9:30 am so we could see the news, she had heard that a bomb went off in the Pentagon. A few minutes after turning on the television,…
