Nice shot! And the well done video short. As always, I'd love to read more about the entirety of the experience, but this was good quick fun to see and read.

I love this. I read Michael's post about the Vietnam war and yours measures up to greatness with his. Very interesting and thorough and thoughtful.

Wow! This is more like a well written research paper, and it works perfectly as an engaging and interesting blog post with plenty of visual rhetoric to keep our interest.

This is great, but I think you should separate it into separate smaller paragraphs so your topics are better organized.

This is great, but I'd love to read more about your own experience eating there with specifics. It sounds like a great place to go.

I love this because it is truly what a blog post can be: a slice of life well told. You explore and experience and you make it meaningful.

This is a fabulous, interesting and insightful exploration of the Vietnam war. Awesome work!

I like this, but it would be more readable if broken into short paragraphs.

This feels like more of a start to a blog post than a completed post. I love to read more about starting up the guitar again.

This is fun, but I would love to see more writing about the experience to introduce the video.

One of the oldest sayings about writing is to "write what you know," and you certainly write from the perspective of an expert on warfare and all things military. This is a fascinating essay that explore is the unique diversity that is the very nature of how warfare is conducted. You certainly kept my attention. Your writing is clear and concise and compelling. It is everything a good essay needs. In spite of my editing, this is by far your most polished and perfect work.

Such a thoughtful and full essay that explores diversity from a variety of angles and perspectives. You incorporate relevant personal details of your family in the world that you live in. You prove to us that diversity is much an inner thing as it is an outer thing.

This reminds me in an effective way of exactly what I was like when I was a kid. This is what a good essay is to: they bring us back to a memory and help us think in new and powerful ways. This essay does that for me as I'm sure it does for a lot of people. And that is the hallmark of a good writing piece, which this is!

This is an essay that is compelling and full of the raw turmoil of a personal experience with cancer. Yes it feels like you speaking directly from your heart and soul and being. It captures a moment of time and tells eternal truths we should all cherish. Excellent work!

This is a great exploration of what diversity truly is and can be, especially as it relates to attending school such as ours. It has a good natural voice that really feels like you speaking at your very best that is a trademark of an effective essay--which this truly is.

This is a great exploration of what diversity truly is and can be, especially as it relates to attending school such as ours. It has a good natural voice that really feels like you speaking at your very best that is a trademark of an effective essay--which this truly is.

Such a real and great narrative voice exploring a very complicated issue in wise and informed ways. There are so many great lines in this essay that stand out and stick in my memory, which is what a great essay needs to be a compelling and a true testament.

Wow. This essay really hits home in a real and powerful way, especially because of your personal connection as a minority person. Great use of dialogue and vividly the detailed scenes mixed in with your own insightful reflections.

I am getting hungry just reading this :-) it is interesting to learn about the different cultures and their different ways of approaching food. You do an excellent job using personal details and specific places to highlight a different form of diversity.