I recently read Jessica Grose’s debut novel Sad Desk Salad after noticing the book’s cute cover at a local book store. The fun and entertaining novel stars a gossip blogger named Alex Lyons. Alex is an intelligent and creative writer living in New York City…
Summer is coming to a close, and school is just hours away for me. I know every kid has experienced a love or dislike for summer reading. This summer, one of the suggested books on my reading list was a novel called The Night Circus…
I saw the movie “Ted” last weekend and as most of the trailers showed, it was very funny. John Bennett and Ted (his teddy bear) were best friends when John was a child and are still best friends as adults. They continue to do the…
Have you seen the new reality show on the Sundance channel called “Push Girls”? It premiered on June 4th, and tells the real story about the lives of four women living in LA who met after they became paralyzed. Three of the young women are paraplegics (paralyzed…
A few weeks ago I got an invitation to go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for an after-hours event at the museum. The invitation was from an organization at Boston Children’s Hospital that is comprised of interns and research assistants. I went to the…
Recently the other youth advisors and I had a chance to visit the Urbano Art Gallery. For those of you that aren’t familiar, it’s an art program in Boston that recruits and encourages urban teens to express their views on social, political, and economic issues…
A few months ago my friends and sister were all reading this book called The Hunger Games. I had heard of the book and based on reviews it was supposed to be very interesting and compelling. At the time I was pretty busy, but I…
A few weeks ago my mom asked me if I wanted to see this exhibit that the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She told me it was called “The Clock”. I turned to her and said, “Mom, I know what I clock looks like”,…
My conductor once told me that placing your finger on your instrument and testing the note to see if it’s correct is not enough. He said that being a real musician is about feeling the note as you begin to cue it, to hear the…
If you happened to watch the show Private Practice last week on ABC, you would have learned a little bit about MRKH, which is an acronym for Mayer-von-Rokitansy-Kuster-Hauser syndrome. One of the story lines was about a 20 something woman with MRKH who had an…