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The year was 2010. I was five years old and finally allowed to watch television (my mother had a strict “no TV” rule until then). Quickly, my little mind was captivated. At first by the commercials advertising toys I would …
Dirt cake, Grandma and a wind-up lobster. These aren’t just things you may witness walking down the mean streets of Maine but essential components to Nick Jr.’s 2002 show “Max and Ruby.” If this show wasn’t a staple of your …
At sunrise in Rosemary Beach, Fla., I feel the chilly salt air in my face and the security of feeling as though I have the world to myself. Looking out at the white sand meeting the ocean, I feel content, …
We all gathered from Cape Cod, Mass. and Brooklyn, N.Y. and Belfast, Maine and Vienna, Austria as mere strangers up 57 stairs (we counted) to the bare white walls of Appleton Hall room 405, unknowing of the home it would …
While Serbs nowadays throw up a holy trinity salute to express their national pride and religion—like Albanians who sign an eagle across their chests with both hands—when I occasionally throw up my thumb, index and middle fingers in a photo, …
Early in the fall it is not rainy, but I decide to wear rain pants to lab anyway. We study mosses flagged by yellow tape for a few hours. The medium is found ballpoint pen on waterproof paper: my favorite …
When the alarm finally rang, I didn’t expect it to be a car crash. I’d been a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) at Harpswell Neck Fire Department for five months, more than a full semester, and had not yet received …
There was a woodpecker on the tree closest to my bedroom window on Sunday morning. His pecking sounded over the constant drizzling rain, becoming my very own aviary alarm, coaxing me in and out of sleep. His pecking reminded me …
Currently I’m sitting in bed on the bottom floor of my aunt’s apartment in Portland, OR (not the other Portland, the one in Maine where I go to school). It’s almost a hundred degrees outside. I angle the shades to …
Content warning: This Talk of the Quad contains depictions of an eating disorder that may be upsetting to some readers.
We all want to feel good about ourselves. And in many ways, I’m incredibly proud of the person I am. …
