Music Recommendations
Hello. These are our music recommendations. 🙂 You have no reason to trust our musical taste, but you should check out these songs anyway. RINA https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hRdUnK4vwJp6nzfM6z3cR?si=Evt F3 NWSLevaJj 529ql 3Q I went through so many phases. I liked Slipknot (don’t ask), Ice Cube,…
Myopic Truths
Welcome back, Matchbox readers! This week, Emma and Alia discuss the hard-hitting, thought-provoking topics. You know, the ones that can pull apart friendships and make you want to bang your head against a wall. The ones that pit parent against child and Twitter user against…
California Dreamin’
By Cameron Hernandez and Logan Fitzsimons What happens when you surrender to REM sleep? Would you say that you have dreams in this precious hour of night? Do you dream too much, too little? Sometimes it feels as if dreams are immersive Dadaist landscapes in…
Food for Thought
Seldom acknowledged, food is a universal language through which people communicate. It’s history, construction and transmission between people and cultures requires such artistry and storytelling that our staff members Sarah and Juliet believe it should be its own branch of literature. Please, enjoy our…
Welcome back to our blog!
Hello Matchbox Readers, Welcome to our first blog post of 2021. We know that it has been a while since we’ve posted here, but there is some exciting content coming your way in the next two quarters (and beyond, we hope). In the spirit of…
A Vida Ă© Arte (Life is Art)
One of my favorite things about traveling is finding neighborhoods, alleyways, or other local areas that show the essence of a community, a town, or a city. While traveling, I was always most intrigued by the murals—and variation of murals—that could be found within communities….
Bob Ross and the Art of Chilling Out
We’re all a little anxious these days, right? Aside from the obvious, we’ve got all of our own things to—exams, instagram drama, grad school—we’re just one person! Well the gospel of Bob Ross and I are here to help. Or perhaps I am the gospel…
This I Believe
      This I Believe Inc. is an organization that publishes short essays from individuals about something that they, well, I, believe in. The organization has a huge online database of essays from all types of people, writers or not, with…
Stress Relief For Writers From a Matchbox Alumni
I was invited here to tell you that if you’re worried about what your future as a writer might look like, you shouldn’t. One, because worrying about the future only prohibits you from being the best you can be in the present, and two, because…
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
Dorothy Hale jumped out of the window of her high rise apartment on October 21st 1938. She was wearing a black dress with a corsage of yellow roses. Hale was struggling financially, although she was an actress, the sexism and ageism of Hollywood was slowly bleeding her…