Renounce Silence!!

It is no secret that I am one for the beauty of the written word - spoken as well. A fond thank you goes to one of my sixth-grade teachers, Mrs. Ollman, who drove unmitigated passion into the hearts of her students through the use of stories and words. This memory shall never yield and never cease to affect who I am capable of being each day.

Two worldly pleasures to share:

A book recommendation - I am currently reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I have in the past read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and am now involved in a book-club here in Seoul (just some friends) who are about to discuss the latter. Foer is an insightful author, and is surprisingly young for such savviness. Take my word for it...



Vocabulary - a website that intrigued yet thwarted me...there were a few I had never heard:

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know