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A Letter to Myself at Fifteen

Thea van Diepen

(for maximum reading experience, start this song and then continue down) Hey you, How’s it going? I’ve missed you. You’re so wonderfully creative, so gentle, and so very wise. I mean it. For so many years, you’ve been hiding yourself, trying to protect yourself from being hurt by people who don’t understand you. Alabama wasn’t too bad (being homeschooled definitely has its advantages), but I remember being twelve and being scared that I would be picked on when I started public

The Scariest Thing on the Internet

Thea van Diepen

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Chimimanda Adichie I’m scared out of my mind to say that I’m a Christian, or to talk about Christianity. In one of my earlier blog posts, tried to talk about this, but I skated around the issue and explained everything very poorly. I didn’t say what I was thinking because I

The Worst Part of Death

Thea van Diepen

I remember the day my great-grandfather died. It’s not like it was unexpected, after all, the man was 101, but it was because he was 101 that I had thought he wasn’t going to die. He was the oldest person I knew, and I thought that he would beat the Guinness world record and die at about 130. Sometime nice and far away. It made sense; when he turned 100, my mom sent him a birthday card and he wrote