In 2004, I was 16, a Junior in high school and in the middle of a year that was a rocket to the moon. Many important things happened that year. I pride myself on usually being pretty good at realizing the importance of things as they’re happening, but something I didn’t realize was so important until later was reading Old Times on the Mississippi, a portion of a larger Mark Twain memoir named Life on the Mississippi, for my AP English class. (Ms. Grant, we loved you and you are sorely missed.) Continue reading “Motion of the Ocean” →