The hot California sun was beating down on my skin. The orange and yellow rays hit the waves and made the ocean glisten. I sink my pretty pink toes into the sand, letting the waves crash among me. Shells were spread all around the beach, poking up like little rays of light. I smell the […]

After slowly climbing higher and higher and higher, I was finally there. I stopped to get a drink from my half empty water bottle and leaned against a boulder, resting my tired, aching legs. It was flattening out and only a few little trees and shrubs were growing through the cracks in the rocks. A […]

My arrival to the ever-sunny Hanauma Bay was greeted with wide expanses of cream colored sand, embracing gleaming, crystal clear, glasslike, aquamarine water. No, not water- they were liquid diamonds, converging, constantly swaying to the ocean’s song, waves beating down onto the shore in unexplainable rhythms. My first tentative steps were mesmerizingly cool, comforting in […]

The white goal line below me is chipped and faded. I shift my weight, balancing on my toes. The lush green field has never felt so tiny. The net so small engulfs me like a tight blanket. A crisp silence falls upon the viewers. Only the shooter and I are existent. The sky is blue, […]