Christi: Welcome to Alumnus Spotlight Show. Today, you’ll meet our first alumnus guest Christine Niu. Let me briefly introduce her. Christine lived in Central New Jersey with her parents and younger brother, who was in TPS up until the past school year. After graduating from TPS in 2022, she enjoyed […]
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Of Childhoods and Ciphers
“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” ~ “Invictus” – William Ernest Hensley Graduation is rapidly approaching, which is a terrifying thought, and here I am with my (actual!!) last ever clay article. I’ll leave you with two series containing one of […]
The Old Man and the Sea
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen ~ “So Long, Farewell” – from The Sound of Music By now, you’ll know that we’ve come to the end of our time together. I wish I had more […]
The Book Thief
“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow” – Billy Collins I am haunted by humans. It’s through Death’s […]
Far From The Madding Crowd
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. ~ “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard” – Thomas Gray February, as we all know, is the month of […]