As Ferris Bueller once said, “life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” It seems like it was just yesterday that I walked into those big red doors of the Penn Charter Lower School for my first day of…

What defines home? I write this post all bundled up in sweats from my cozy house in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania — a Philly suburb. If I had to choose one place to call my home, this is it. Why do I define this place as my home? I have lived…

I have never gone a full day without hearing music. If you really think about it, have you? Music is practically unavoidable. An alarm in the morning; the radio in the car; motivational music for a workout; soundtracks on television. The list goes on and on. If we know how…

I always imagined the though of having COVID-19 to be scary, but it wasn’t. I write this as I lay in my queen sized bed that lies inside my comfortable hotel room in the DoubleTree Hotel DTLA. …

Opening Track I have never been musically talented — my friend Milla genuinely thinks I’m tone-deaf. Yet, my love for music has always burned bright within me. Growing up, when I watched movies or shows with my parents I noticed that my mom’s feet would bounce to the beat of each and…

10:43 am. my words: recovering, sick, stressed, healing Recovery. I am recovering. This morning, I feel both wide awake and tired at the same time. I feel sick. I feel like my body is starting to heal. I feel stressed. I am ready to tackle the work ahead of me…

I have spent most of my life paying little-to-no attention to maintaining my well-being. Growing up, I learned to please others. I remember being taught that other people’s happiness with me or my actions is very important. While I may have also been told that my happiness matters, that was…

Physical surroundings affect one’s emotional health. I’ve known this to be true for quite a while now. A glass room full of sunlight invokes different emotions than does a dark room that lacks any natural light source. The beach different than the streets of an urban city. …

Time management in relation to the balance of well-being has been quite a struggle for me since coming to college. After having trouble with time management early on in middle school, I received help from my school’s faculty on how to better manage my time. Since then, I prided myself…