Becca Volk
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Becca is a chronically-ill lady, writes on health, humanity, and what it truly means to be alive. She invites you into her unique world, and the imagination, that comes with being stuck in bed. The world may be still, but words keep moving.
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When Google Maps Crashed My Wedding
The sun was shining and the air was crisp and cool on the day of my elopement. We all piled into a cottage in the Peak District: my fiancé, two dogs, a photographer, a hairstylist, and me. Getting ready had been a breeze with mimosas and gluten-free muffins to our heart’s content. It was all running smoothly until we jinxed it.
By Becca Volk3 months ago in Marriage
I Do but I Don't
Marriage is defined as a formally recognised union between two people. Some say it is a social construct and others believe it to be spiritual in nature. Whether a union born of love, necessity, or monetary gain; it has shaped many societies both past and present. Within Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen, marriage is an ever-present force pushing the characters onward. To an extent that without the presence of marriage in her works, Austen’s plot falls to pieces and the characters lose a pivotal motivation for their actions. An important difference between the two works, is the ages at which the characters get married and how this affects the role that the women play and the impact of their choices within the works and their world. In Pride and Prejudice, the reader is introduced to teenage marriage in the form of Lydia Bennet, while in Persuasion, Anne is married older.
By Becca Volk9 months ago in BookClub
English 101
“What in the world are you going to do with a B.A. in English?” (Avenue Q) Many an English scholar has posed this question so poignant it is the title of a song in a hit Broadway musical. The answer is wider than many would expect. Words are key to success in the working world. How a person is presented can be seen in how they speak and deliver themselves. The difference between a successful job interview and a failed one could be how you answer the interviewer's question. To start successfully, it is important to prepare for said interview and take a note from an English Major’s book by paying attention to your words.
By Becca Volk9 months ago in Writers
The Truth of Being Adopted
I keep a bunny in a bag in my desk drawer. There is a bunny in a bag inside a square little drawer, a childhood memory tucked away like a textbook that has been forgotten to be used. She sits there like a memento from a time when I believed in the person that gave her to me.
By Becca Volk5 years ago in Confessions
Sugar Dusted
When I was young my favorite season with Christmas, not even because of the presents, but because of the mountains of sugar I got to create. My grandmother is southern in her soul and we made every cookie and cake a person could think of. This love of baking became instilled in me and I was named the family baker from a young enough age my Mom was terrified to let me do it alone. I learned and created until I found the best ways to make some magic out of dough. In High School I would bring a new type of cookie invention to school once a week and hand it out to the other students in my cross-cultural class.
By Becca Volk5 years ago in Feast
The Day I Lost 'Her'
When I was a child I would look up through the trees and wonder if God was looking back at me. A blonde braid down my back, and some spare change in my pocket, I skipped through the autumn air jingling away. It felt very grown up to be without my parents for an hour or two. I was always a Wendy Darling, wishing to grow up.
By Becca Volk6 years ago in Longevity
Paper Houses
When I was eight years old my father told me that we had money problems and so I brought him my piggy bank. What was only pennies and dimes to most were riches to me? Even with what meagre savings I had to offer, it was offered nonetheless. My father looked like he was going to cry.
By Becca Volk7 years ago in Families
Mr. Darcy's Day Out
Comfort animals are used to bring comfort to a wide range of chronic and mentally ill people. Due to the fact that this privilege is often taken for granted by those who don't suffer from such illnesses, new rules and regulations have come into place. In order to better understand the process of traveling with ones comfort animal, I am going to map out some tips based on my own personal experiences.
By Becca Volk8 years ago in Petlife
Let There Be Light
The place was akin to a terrestrial purgatory. When I eventually gained the courage to trudge up to the abandoned reception desk and shakily sign my name and the time in a binder with crumpled pages, I shivered under the atmosphere that enveloped me. There was some semblance of peace in the quiet, but I was also greeted by icy tendrils of despair.
By Becca Volk8 years ago in Longevity
When the Abyss Stares Back
Ever since I was a child, I have been afflicted with what I have recently dubbed “the horror gene.” It runs in my mother’s side of the family and skips a generation. My maternal grandfather had it; the varying four-foot tall stacks of horror films in his house certainly attested to that. Now, I have him to thank, for that very same morbid fascination with darkness and fear is in my own blood.
By Becca Volk8 years ago in Horror
