millennial blog project

The Writing

  • Sonnet, revisited

    Quite a few of my views also come when people search “c.b. trail” into a search engine. It’s because of this post. And this poem (which I will type from memory): This is for the afternoon we lay in the leaves, after it had been winter for half a year. And I kissed you and Read more

  • The post you’ve been waiting for…

    It’s been tough, to say the least.  It would have been three years on the 21st… I was a wreck. I needed distractions that day; my friends delivered. But when one of our songs came on in the dining hall, I couldn’t breathe.  A staple I had in my life before is now gone. And Read more

  • Gertrude, Part II (never let it topple)

    I wrote this post as part of my personal anthology project in 2009 during my sophomore year of high school. I was 15. The writing could be better. But, at the time, my teacher found it good enough to mark a grade of over 100 percent on the grading page. So the spacing’s a little wonky Read more

  • A corporation-cluttered culture

    I found a copy of Love The One You’re With by Emily Giffin in a used book shop my friend took me to yesterday. It’s been on my Shelfari page in the “I plan to read” section since my sophomore year of high school. Naturally, the $3.50 price tag said “BUY ME.”  “That’ll be $2,” the shop owner Read more

  • Unconditional love

    I live at one end of our upstairs hallway with my parents and my dad’s office. The boys take up the other end, filling the air with a pungent odor of testosterone. Or, at least, that’s how it used to be. I just realized that I haven’t called, texted, tweeted at or Facebook messaged my Read more

  • Rearranged

    I’m on a roller coaster. I rode my first one in Hersheypark almost four years ago with my then-boyfriend. We then rode the second-steepest roller coaster in the nation. Fahrenheit, with its 97-degree drop, transformed my breathing into a scream. He and I went on to Darien Lake together that summer (2009) and rode all Read more