Midterms: what are they, and how are they crucial to our democracy?
The midterm elections are very appropriately named. They take place two years into a president’s four-year term and are...
Author: Ellie Wright
Ellie’s vivaciously vulnerable vigorous verses
Honey When I was younger I would pour honey into raspberries And I would lay In...
Poetry
Blink and You’ll miss it The nature of living Is a fickle...
Mob boss Jacob
Recently, the old adage of “it’s always the ones you least expect” came into a surprisingly apropos light here...
Riot against diets! Positive affirmations and reminders for post-holiday eating
With New Year’s freshly behind us, the worst part of January comes with it. The threat of this day...
Ellie’s Poetry
The Exact Middle My feet are different weights, ...
Ellie Wright’s Summer: A Collection
Bursting The ocean is three feet from my door My soles nudge at the outside ground The sun has...
The (Thrifted, Gifted, and Beloved) Clothes of Orcas Island
The social hub of Orcas Island concentrates itself in two places: on the ferry, and at the market. The...
Eloquent Ellie’s Various Venerable Vivacious Verses
Shift Ninety-nine cent lemons and five pounds of potatoes fall bleakly from the grace of a thin plastic...
How Cigarette Money Exerts its Power in our Society
There has been a theory posed by psychologists that the human brain cannot really visualize numbers greater than twenty....
Top Tips for Deciphering Directions Given in Islanderese
So, you have been invited to dinner at a friend’s house. You were told to go down to Crescent...
Ellie’s Poetry
Humans Humans with stupid little brains and stupid giant hearts Creating something out of nothing Turning something into art...