TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON
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...
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Philomena Stone
- Sep 14
- 2 min
On Starting College and Letting Go of High School
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...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Sep 14
- 7 min
Ruth Simmons' Hardscrabble journey from East Texas to elite higher education
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...
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Philomena Stone
- Jul 15
- 5 min
The Importance of Self Care (Even When Not On Vacations)
I recall awaking a few weeks ago to the feeling of my plush comforter wrapped around my body and the sound of Northern Mockingbirds...
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Philomena Stone
- Jun 24
- 5 min
The Presumed Ennui of Life
FROM my freshman through junior years in high school, I often complained that the days felt as if they were dragging on, the...
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Philomena Stone
- May 17
- 5 min
ON TURNING EIGHTEEN
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...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Apr 12
- 3 min
The Resurrection Message
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...
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Philomena Stone
- Apr 8
- 3 min
The Education System I’m Leaving Behind
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...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Feb 3
- 3 min
UNDERSTAND AND FOCUS YOUR POWER
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,...
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S. Hammond
- Feb 3
- 3 min
AN EMPTY BOOK?
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. ...
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Philomena Stone
- Jan 16
- 8 min
Confidence in the Age of Tik Tok
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...
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R. Badua
- Jan 8
- 3 min
Survival of the Fittest
IN Science class, I've learned about natural selection and how it causes animals to adapt and evolve to their environment using inherited...
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R. Jordan
- Jan 8
- 4 min
AN ANOMALY NO MORE
MY mother has bestowed upon me many advantageous lessons in the form of beatings, groundings, and neglect. "You need to learn to be okay...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Jan 8
- 2 min
ESTHER PRODUCTIONS INC. ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ITS DISCOVERING ME…WITHOUT YOU SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
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...
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Alycea Gayle
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
‘My Relationship With Fatherless Daughter-ness’
FOR the longest time, I prided myself on not being like the other fatherless daughters—the ones whose symptoms are ridiculed and...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
Words that Heal and Propel
Reconciliation. That is a word we, at Esther Productions Inc., often speak. We understand its power. Trauma. That’s another word we...
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Alycea Gayle
- Sep 5, 2022
- 3 min
LAST CALL… SORTA
AUGUST 29th, 2022 marked the first day of my senior year of high school--my last first day of grade school. I’d prayed for so long for...
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Alycea Gayle
- Jul 10, 2022
- 4 min
Reflecting on my rights
DURING the first month of 2020, I remember seeing lighthearted tweets hoping for a return to the glitz, glamour, and supposed “freedom”...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- May 21, 2022
- 1 min
DANCE, DANCE DANCE
“A lot of suffering happens when we are thinking about the past or the future; we go over and over those things in our mind,” Horan says....
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- May 10, 2022
- 6 min
The River Spoke My Name
I can’t remember exactly what prompted the ritual of spending many of my Saturdays during my youth in the French Quarter of New Orleans....
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