There is a concept in economics that can be applied to any aspect of our lives, called “opportunity cost”.

We live in a world of splintered media. Shared cultural touchstones are irrelevant, and if they are well known, they’ve been reduced to eight-year-olds using the newest nonsensical Internet slang that seems to last a week at most.

I was walking through the aisles of a second-hand book store when I stumbled upon a book. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. It sounded so philosophical. The juxtapositional title intrigued me even more. The unbearable lightness? How can lightness be unbearable? Honestly, after reading the book over the course of several months, annotating it densely, and pondering upon it for weeks afterward, I still can’t tell you.

When I first stepped onto the University of New Haven’s campus, I didn’t think I was going to be an English Major.

My journey through Horseshoe Magazine was a bit different from other people’s.

Photo Credit - Erik Mclean As you get older, you come across paths that you have forgotten, and for me, it happens through music. Some songs become a part of your life’s soundtrack, and others are quiet and patient. They wait until the right moment to return to your memory as if it never left. “Like a Stone” wasn’t just a song for me, it was a road that I will never forget riding on. The hummed feeling buzzed beneath something I was too young then to understand. I was eight