I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

Whoa!" she says as I plow into her. " What are you DOING? Get off me!" I hang on tight. "Can't a girl just hug her big sister?" She stops fighting me. "Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. "No one died." "Then get off!

Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.

Life is short, have dessert first.