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A few days ago I was sitting at home and decided that it had been too long since I wrote a short story. I have always loved creative writing, even though I'm not the best at it. Anyway, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to write about. Thankfully, I had the enormous power of the internet to help me out. I didn't do much, just simply typed 'creative writing prompts' into the search bar and let the World Wide Web work it's magic. Almost immediately thousands of results popped up on my screen. I searched through the many pages of prompts for a bit and none really caught my eye as something that I wanted to write about. None, until I landed on the simple prompt: Write about…

From a very young age, my parents taught me to always hold the door for the person behind you. I never really thought of it as something that could teach me a lesson when I became older. One Spring day close to the end of seventh grade, I was walking back from my flute lesson in the Arts Center to the middle school building. Being one of the youngest kids in my school, I tried to keep contact with upper schoolers limited because only a few actually took time from their day to wave to me in the hallways. As I pushed through the doors I saw a few kids on their way in. It was clear from the distance that was between them that they we not walking together.…

Thanks to my friend Jodi who's bat mitzvah is shortly after mine, I am starting my summer of Mitzvot off strong with a morning spent on the Charles River removing invasive plants. The plants we were specifically looking for were water chestnuts. There were two people to each boat. I only knew two people that were from my Hebrew School out of about twenty three, so my options were limited. I decided to go with my friend Rina, and I took the back because since I had grown up on a lake, I had plenty of experience. We paddled out to a small, closed off section of the river that was heavily inhabited with lily pads. The two instructors that led the group looked to be only about sixteen. I…