Lately I’ve been wondering what has happened to yearning in the true definition of the word. In It’s a Wonderful Life , George Bailey does everything to get Mary to fall for him. He courts her, yearns for her, he even promises to lasso the moon for her. And while he can’t necessarily do that, he buys her her dream home and puts his dreams of travel on hold to give her a good life. That is romance. Yearning. Pining.  Around 79 years later and yearning has been replaced with so

When I was in college, I barely read for fun. I was a Sociology and Spanish major, so all of my time was dedicated to reading books like,...

A Short Story by Thais Rulich-Maly “Whenever I’m alone with you…” The song swept through the ballroom, like a cool breeze over a meadow,...