REVISED: ESSAY AND COVER LETTER 3: Buddhism in Bedford

Final Draft: BuddhismBedStuy Cover Letter: CoverLetter3 PDF: BuddhismBedStuy Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUiQ4S7v7PA&feature=youtu.be   Buddhism in Bedford The smell of sweet white wine lingered on my breath as I slid into the driver’s seat of my car.  Exhausted by the day, I took a minute to gain…

Essay #3 Draft: Buddhism in Bed Stuy

Dear Reader: Here is a copy of the first draft of my capstone essay: Buddhism In Bed Stuy. I apologize for my tardiness in getting the essay posted, but the thing that I have discovered about my own writing process…

REVISED: ESSAY AND COVER LETTER 2: MIND THE GAP

Essay: Mind The Gap (MindTheGapRVEdit) Orange.  Blue.  White.  Lots of white. I can’t keep track of them anymore.  Our morning tea time has been reduced to nothing more than a marker of passing time.  Her skin seems more wrinkled than…

Essay and Cover Letter #2: Mind The Gap

Essay #2: Mind The Gap (MindTheGap)   Orange.  Blue.  White.  Lots of white… I can’t keep track of them anymore.  Our morning tea time has been reduced to nothing more than a marker of passing time.  Her skin seems more…

Blog Post 2.2: (An Attempt To Use) An Effective Break (Well)

“A professional student?  We had one of you in the family before,” she said, her piercing blue eyes fading quickly from the present, back to somewhere less cloudy. I smiled as the brogue slipped off of her tongue and brought…

Blog Post 2.1: An Effective Break

“And I expected, as the fissure closed, that my first wife would disappear. I was wrong.” This simple paragraph break is effective in Callahan’s short essay “Chimera” for a number of reasons. The style of the second paragraph, a simple…

Revised: Essay and Cover Letter 1: Thirty Minutes and One Hundred Dollars

Essay: ThirtyMinutesEssayRV Thirty Minutes and One Hundred Dollars   “You lying sack of shit”, he murmured under his breath as he tossed my newly printed driver’s license back at me.  I looked up at him with my deep green eyes, smiling…

Blog Post 1.2: A Shred of Good Advice

“You must fight these phrases or you’ll sound like every hack.  You’ll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive.  The English language is…