Love Hate

Is Facebook a Friend or Foe?

As a 16 year old growing up in a small suburban neighborhood outside of Seattle, I like most other kids my age dabbled with this new online space called, Facebook. I didn’t have much interest in online media at that age other than my beloved digital camera…

A Family that Keeps Secret from Each Other, Stays Together

Click, click, click. I heard the sound of the mouse from the room across the hall. A door opened and I heard footsteps… getting softer, getting farther. I heard the screen door open and slam back. No one knows I was listening…

Screwed Over

“What percent are you on?” I asked, ready to plug in my battery-drained phone. I reached to swap our phones for the plug.

My Pathway to Freedom and Seclusion

At 7am, I could hear the loud buzz of my alarm vibrating on my nightstand placed within arms reach of my bed. At the sound of the buzz, I quickly jumped out of bed and ran down the staircase of my suburban home as a fifteen year old girl. I quickly approached the…

Sunset to Remember

The sun hung low in the sky and tomorrow would be the day that I would walk down the stadium podium and shake my way into…

Stranger (NOT)! Danger

The summer before high school I spent a lot of time on the internet talking to strangers. It consumed my life for about three months; any chance I got to go online, I would. My encounters with these people were not intentional. To be clear, I did not go on random profile searches and add…

A Story of Growing Up with the Computer

How I Got Myself Fascinated in Technology

Learning to Disconnect

My eyes aren’t even open all the way yet but every single morning it’s the same routine: wake up and roll over to check…