Continued from Part 2 Content note: self-harm In a group session summer before last with my counselor and my parents, my mom mentioned the time my sister asked her why I was so logical and scientific when one of our dogs was being euthanized in his old age. "How could Eleanor be so cold?" she'dContinue reading "Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster"
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel
Continued from Part 1 "We're talking about anger here, Fraser, a human emotion.Are you human? Because if you are, human beings feel things, okay?They feel anger, they feel love, they feel lust and fear, and sometimes,and I know you don't want to hear this, sometimes they even cry."- Ray, Due South (2.17), "Red, White, orContinue reading "Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel"
Summer remodel changes arrangement of library
This article was originally published in The Scribe, UCCS’s student newspaper, on Sept. 22, 2014. By Eleanor SkeltonNews Editor Non-quiet zones in a library? Huh? This semester, the Kraemer Family Library opened a new student collaborative learning center where a sign invites students to have study groups, work together on class projects and even socialize. Library Dean TeriContinue reading "Summer remodel changes arrangement of library"
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful
I lie here lifelessIn this cocoonShedding my skin cause I'm ready toI wanna break outI found a way outI don't believe that it's gotta be this wayThe worst is the waitingIn this womb I'm suffocating Feel your presence filling up my lungs with oxygenI take you inI've diedRebirthing nowI wanna live for love wanna live forContinue reading "Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful"
Where have all the ribbons gone? | How Americans remember those who died during 9/11
Thirteen years is long enough for memory to grow stale. But it can’t erase video footage. For twelve years, I have remembered 9/11 by reliving it. I planted dozens of flags with the College Republicans on campus until my thumbs blistered, I viewed dramatizations with my family, I held the steel beam of the WorldContinue reading "Where have all the ribbons gone? | How Americans remember those who died during 9/11"
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