how to teach a child to play the piano [lifestyle]
By Ishan Khurana | March 191.) Find a piano.
1.) Find a piano.
1.) Find a piano.
Make two wishes and say one of them aloud.
I practice curling my tongue, enunciating, moving my mouth in unfamiliar directions. The sounds of the spoken language ring true—I grew up listening to my mother tell me Chinese folktales of a woman stranded on the moon for infinity, or hovering above my shoulder to reprimand me for my poorly drawn ...
Palm to forehead, mouth agape, and wiping away my tears with a blanket, I have never had such a physically emotional response to a television show as the first time I watched Fleabag. The mini-series is a one-two punch: What begins as a comedy about the owner of a guinea pig cafe twists into a meditation ...
Fish don’t exist. It’s quite a simple concept, though I suppose I should elaborate.
“Do you wanna see his finger?” My friend reaches into his pocket to grab his phone, grinning like we’re talking about high school drama.
In the basement of my house are stacks of boxes full of my family’s precious photo albums. These cardboard treasure chests contain records that chronicle the histories of my parents, my siblings, and me, yet I’m not privy to them. They’ve remained sealed away, safe but untouched, for as long as ...
In my Intro to Creative Nonfiction class, I wrote about my grandmother for my first piece. I wrote about her because she was dead, and nothing comes more naturally than remembering a person who no longer exists.
Houses are living things. Maybe not quite as sentient as Encanto’s Casita or the literal living house in Monster House, but they have hearts—a pulse beating through the pipes, a unique personality built into the walls, memories ingrained in the foundation. There's credence to the saying, home is ...
In the midst of midterms, it’s always nice to take a break and hit up one of Thayer’s many beloved restaurants to unwind. Whether you’re looking for a boba break, a quick bite, or something more upscale, this street’s got you covered.
I stand in the kitchen of my off-campus apartment, staring at the lumpy sack of Japanese sweet potatoes on the counter. The shape is wrong. They are smaller than the ones Mom buys from the Asian Food Markets back home, their skin covered in little scabs as if they’ve made a hard journey to get here. ...
let’s go to the movies
“1…2…1, 2, 3, 4!” All at once, the messiest, most disorganized, most insane group of rock ‘n’ roll legends come together for an iconic cover of a Beatles classic.
There's truly one thing in the world that frustrates me more than the current state of American politics: Roblox's viral multiplayer dress-up simulator, Dress to Impress. Whether during a particularly monotonous period of lecture or a restful moment of Mock Trial practice, I find myself consistently ...
The vision board that hangs crookedly on my dorm wall has seen its fair share of wear and tear. Its corners are wrinkled from traveling cross-country in my backpack. A little too heavy for its tape, from time to time the vision board falls off the cinder blocks, and I wake up to it facedown on my windowsill. ...