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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ” Annis Nin HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2025 IS THE YEAR OF WOMEN & GIRLS: WATCH US! THAT...

“ The mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.” Ralph Waldo Emerson      DURING the presidential...

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”   Stella Adler   Dear Friend,   AS you know, for 20 years,...

OCTOBER 2024 NE WSLETTER   ESTHER TALKS                                                                  “The discipline of creation, be...

IN 1967, after a four-month stint in corporate America, I announced to my supervisor that the job was not my suit of clothes. She was...

ON December 9, 2023 three young ladies from the Washington Metropolitan Region were chosen by a team of prestigious judges as recipients...

IN the morning from my balcony, I look out at the expanse of trees. October opens with them beginning to change colors—a sprinkle of gold...

I have survived my second week of college. If you had asked me last month if that was something I thought myself capable of doing, I...

WHEN the galley for Ruth J. Simmons’ memoir — Up Home: One Girl’s Journey — arrived in my mailbox a few months ago, I couldn’t wait to...

I recall awaking a few weeks ago to the feeling of my plush comforter wrapped around my body and the sound of Northern Mockingbirds...

FROM my freshman through junior years in high school, I often complained that the days felt as if they were dragging on, the...

IN exactly five months and eighteen days from the time I’m writing this, I will be eighteen years old. Like many other starry-eyed young...

DO you sometimes feel as if you’ve become caught in quicksand and it’s impossible to pull yourself out. Each time you move, the deeper...

NEAR the end of February, a student was accosted by an armed robber at the bus stop looking to steal his Airpods not even 500 feet away...

I consider the start of the new year an opportunity to reset by life. Most of us make promises to change. We pledge to improve our diets,...

HAVE you ever opened a book, started reading, and had zero to no idea what you were reading? Maybe there were even a few missing pages. ...

A Breakdown of the App’s Beauty Standards and Accepting Your Appearance in the Age of Un-naturalism I want you to forget about whatever...

IN Science class, I've learned about natural selection and how it causes animals to adapt and evolve to their environment using inherited...

MY mother has bestowed upon me many advantageous lessons in the form of beatings, groundings, and neglect. "You need to learn to be okay...

Raea Jordan and Raine Badua were chosen by a distinguished panel of judges as Top Scholarship winners in Tier 1 (15-18) category and Tier...