Growing up my mother would make us breakfast burritos when she had the time. Bean, egg and cheese, or ham, egg and cheese and my favorite, chorizo, egg and cheese. Despite loving chorizo, I was constantly put off by the texture and the fact it consisted of mushed up animal byproducts. I stopped eating chorizo in my teen years...
When I went back home in the winter break of 2018 after my first year as a transfer student at UCR, I felt defeated. I was separated from my family, had to build new friendships, faced constant employment rejections and had no existing love life. I was not even close to prepared to go back home for the winter...
Instead of giving myself a typical New Year’s resolution where I promise to eat healthier or exercise more, I decided that I would do a fun challenge that has been on my bucket list for a long time. I want to be able to take at least one picture every day for an entire year. I’ve always managed to...
House Coffee
8/10
Sea Cream Black Coffee
7/10
Mint Serano
9/10
Strawberry Macaron
7/10
Price
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Ambience
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The University of California, Riverside has long been cursed with a terrible affliction: our local coffee options are atrocious. Aside from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf found toward the center of campus, almost every other coffee shop within walking distance is a Starbucks. Likewise, new dining fixtures, such as the recently constructed...
I recently opened up the diary I kept throughout high school. It was full of happy moments like the day I got my two dogs or the day I got my braces off and could finally eat an apple. Hidden behind countless doodles were also my past New Year's resolutions. Looking back, my New Year’s resolutions from 2018 were...
Beneath the solar panel shades of a Coffee Bean table sat Herm, finishing as much homework a student could an hour before the deadline. Wind chilling his fingers, Habit fries to his left, Coffee Bean cup to his right, and his senses all over the place, Herm scrounged to make anything respectable for his writing class.
In the middle of...
Music twinkled through the air, snow sprinkling down onto the softly lit town. The Christmas spirit was heavy in the air. Noel trotted through the snow happily, passing by the elves’ workshop and the reindeers’ stable. Noel was the only pig in the North Pole, picked up by Santa on Christmas Eve just a year ago.
Noel was happy at...
A meal that my family always has over the holidays is chicken pot pie. It's my father's special dish that never fails to make us feel warm inside, even when it gets cold out. It is the perfect balance of crisp and gooey. I altered some of it to make it have minimal prep time for a busy college...
i’ve never seen snow fall
but
i imagine
it doesn’t descend gracefully
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line.
the wind would not allow it.
the wind coaxes screams urges
the flakes to take the sky less taken by;
assigning each a role that leads them
to a happy an unhappy an ending.
so, then, even...
“Okay children listen up,” said Mrs. Holiday, “As you may know, Mr. Time just finished establishing his new system called ‘time.’ According to him, we have these things called ‘years’ and each year there are 12 of these things called ‘months.’”
She began to pass around paper and crayons. “Now your next project is to make up your own very...