Girls' Health is important to me.

Girls Health in Girls Hands Movie from Kim Stemler on Vimeo.

Typical of me.

I've been having a great week. Don't want to jinx it. but it's been pretty good. Busy. That's how I like it. But simple at the same time.

This week- Likes:

• Learning calculus (GASP!)
  
• Field hockey games
  
• Foreign exchange students
  
• Giving presentations
  
• Uggs
  
• Pumpkins

For those who don't know, I'm taking a creative writing course. And I've been thinking- Why don't I post some of the things I write on my blog?! Why didn't this occur to me before?

I'm gotten accustomed to sharing my work with the other girls in my class, and it's fun. Right now, I'm writing a short science-fiction-y story called "The Madrone Tree." 

At home, we've been rearranging the furniture in order to accommodate our new flat-screen TV. I'm not a fan, but it's not my decision. It's okay, I guess.

Stay tuned. :)

Take and retakes. :)

My world?

I have to write an essay, a personal statement, for college applications about my "world." And how it's influenced my aspirations and goals.

This is the HARDEST prompt I've encountered. My world? Oh goodness. How can I describe my world? I don't even fully know it myself. I belong to different "worlds" within my universe of reality. I am split. I am not whole.

Eleven months, one day.

Take me, it's so pretty.

Trying is lying.

Promise(s)

I wrote a poem half a year ago about the first promise.

And now, for a second one.

I'm still thinking, silently and inwardly.

Was it an impulse?

Sure, I hit "Send" and then, I was talking on the phone,

Blurting out words.

But I meant it.

Making promises.

It's easy to do when you're obsessed.

I'm not going to be the one to stop,

I can guarantee.

Promises to keep!

Alternative Anatomy

You have two eyes, two ears, but only ONE mouth.

Two eyes to see, two ears to listen, but only one mouth to talk.

So what does that say about us and what we should be?