The Weekly Essay – Ian Hamblen

“Get rid of those, ‘friends,’ of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you, and when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call, and fire them. Anyone who doesn’t believe in you and your future; to hell with them. I’ve had my fill of that. I had people I […]

To me, research and being knowledgeable about information in the world is necessary. There are many people who don’t see it that way, but I know that I must know everything I could possibly know about a topic before having conversations about them. Admittedly, when I first got to college, I didn’t realize that so […]

To me, research and being knowledgeable about information in the world is necessary. There are many people who don’t see it that way, but I know that I must know everything I could possibly know about a topic before having conversations about them. Admittedly, when I first got to college, I didn’t realize that so […]

A lot of people must wish they were the sons and daughters of royalty during peace times I suppose. When I was little, my father led the American Legion during the Memorial Day parades and he always let me march with him. I felt like Bambi. No other kids were treated like how I was […]

A lot of people must wish they were the sons and daughters of royalty during peace times I suppose. When I was little, my father led the American Legion during the Memorial Day parades and he always let me march with him. I felt like Bambi. No other kids were treated like how I was […]

A lot of people must wish they were the sons and daughters of royalty during peace times I suppose. When I was little, my father led the American Legion during the Memorial Day parades and he always let me march with him. I felt like Bambi. No other kids were treated like how I was […]

The plan for my three essays is to write about how to use one’s time better and stop wasting time on things that don’t matter too much at the end of the day. I will look at personal experiences and evaluate how a lot of people use their time in ways that are counterproductive to […]

Every once in a blue moon you run into authors that really jab you with an arrow right through the heart and help you fall in love with writing. These men at first make you feel like you were hit with an arrow of death, and that there’s no possible way you could ever write […]

There are times when I write and I realize that sometimes I am creating my own versions of previously existing stories directly, and even when I complete them, I feel like I didn’t put forth my best effort as one can clearly tell what the source material of the inspiration was. Usually when I write, […]

It’s a very difficult process of understanding what essays are actually saying with the excessive amounts of words they use to convey their message. Sometimes the essays are even longer than the works they’re talking about, and not only that, but to such an extent that you wonder what the point is at all of […]