The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. ― Plutarch   If you’re a part of generation Y as I am, I’m sure you’ve heard throughout your life from your parents that you can do whatever you want in life. They lived through some of the most prosperous economic …

…In broad daylight. It was the summer after I got my drivers license, and my first car. The symbol of Freedom for an American teenager. It was a humble get-up. A red 1999 Kia Sportage. It had the usual inoperable combinations of many of the first cars out there. Driver’s door worked fully, passenger door only opened …

The summer after I got my license, the same summer I had my window inexplicably shattered while driving, I lived with my older cousin. His dad, my uncle, worked driving truck and he spent months on the road so we had free reign of the trailer they lived in. Z (we will call him), my …