Family is complicated, sisters even more so. But there’s something magical about the bound between family members and especially the bond between sisters that makes me feel just a little bit wistful for sisters my own age (with a thousand apologies to my two actual sisters, who are great, but nonetheless 9+ years older than [...]
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How to Be Extraordinary
“Perhaps – rare though truly extraordinary may be – there is no such thing as simply ordinary. Or perhaps there is always the capability of becoming extraordinary, buried inside any ordinary being.” – pg. 373 Phoebe Rothschild comes from a legendary family, filled with extraordinary people who have accomplished extraordinary things. Phoebe, though, isn’t sure [...]
Life’s a Stage
In my sophomore year of college, I started a paper about Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with a quote from Oscar Wilde: “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” What Wilde knew so well was that what we want is often not at all [...]
