This profile originally appeared in the Left Hand Valley Courier Late one night, Shining Mountain Waldorf senior and avid reader Will Barnett was flipping through A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. While this night might have started like any other, it proved to be one that triggered an epiphany - every senior at Shining [...]
As a child, Jan Eliasberg could be found on her living room floor, reading the New York Times’ Sunday Book Review. She dreamed of writing, discovering her voice, finding stories to tell, and just maybe, getting her own books reviewed one day. “I think of myself as a storyteller,” she said. “Whether I’m directing a [...]
American author Joan Didion famously said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” While seemingly simple in sentiment, this quote has so much more impact upon further inspection. We, as humans, are storytellers--we pass down our human history through story, we share our daily lives through story, we connect through story. It can be [...]
A Little Bit of Happiness 