Note: I wrote this a few years ago for my blog, but now I’m adding it to Medium for a wider audience. A few months ago, for one of my English classes, we dove into the murky waters of refugees, examining the motive behind closing off borders and the way…

My brothers and I huddled in front of the TV, our dad sitting on the coach to save his already deteriorating eyesight the strain; but no matter where we were, all our eyes were glued on the Don. We were in our early to mid-teens, and we were watching that…

Below Image: a comic I created based on the feelings described in this essay. I know my penmanship isn’t great, but I wanted to comedically pursue this idea in comics. We accumulate more and more things the older we get like snowballs expanding outward, comets becoming moons becoming planets (if…