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I just got back from Speedo Sectionals Championship Series in Austin, TX. For those who don't know Sectionals is a bi-yearly competition...

Comparison can be helpful, in small doses. But when it becomes the prime motivation for any activity, it can become deadly. Comparison is...

Imagine you were given an opportunity to sail around the world for a year. You would visit untouched seas, witness the most exotic and...

A couple of days ago I was scrolling through social media when I saw a post that said, “If at first, you don’t fail, try, try again.”...

Tell me about yourself. Who is Olivia Grace Barnes? What do you think I should know about you? These are fairly standard interview...

It was as if the city had been swept of life, removed of any creativity. The control that fenced off her world from the world of color...

Round and silver you glow. Like a jewel across a raven’s back, You shine through the darkness and midnight. A pathway of pearls,...

“We don't grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges.” This is something I had to constantly remind myself during the...

As a 16-year-old and a junior in high school, I have made the choice to be an independent learner because I believe that the structure of...

My name is Olivia Grace Barnes and as you know, I am the creater of Black Life, Blue World. But before I start talking about myself, I...

Surrounded by a dingy, coarse, train-track, the city had a radius of roughly five miles. Every person who lived in this city was well...

Like colorful buildings, stacked in neat rows on a wooden shelf. Words embedded onto the sides, barely legible, but nonetheless, still...

Why I Began Researching: A couple of weeks after visiting the pristine waters of the Padre Island National Seashore beaches, I read an...

Over the last 100 years, technology has developed drastically. From improving healthcare to advancing exploration, technology is...