For most young adolescents, middle school is seen as the worst three years of their lives. However, for me at age 11, I woke up excited for school every day with an hour more of sleep than I had gotten...

Just the thought of you was parasitic. It gnawed at me from the inside out, slowly, but in great measure nonetheless.  You infected my brain until it was nothing more than any other useless organ,...

My mother taught me that beauty is almost impossible to describe in a way that encompassses all subjective aspects of its definition. She told me that beauty includes so much more than a few traits, and...

I am an aquarius. Unsure of exactly what that meant, I was forced to do some quick research regarding astrology. Astrology is a system that uses the month of a person’s birth to draw generalizations...

Every spring, the first Monday after Prom, seniors all take an unofficial break from school. Nobody knows how senior skip day became a part of the LHS tradition, but all seniors, other students and teachers...

Most of us are familiar with the social media platform, TikTok, which has over 600 million users. The app allows users to post videos that range from six seconds to a minute, containing content about whatever...

With only a few weeks of the school year remaining, summer will be here before we know it, meaning it’s time for everyone to plan out their summer days. No one wants to feel like they are wasting even...

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and best of all, we’ve got another moral panic on our hands. Last week, #April24 reached over 30 million views on TikTok as hundreds of content creators...

Seven-year-old me couldn't wait to be older than I was. To be able to walk across the street independently without the eye of an older guardian looking over my every move. 10-year-old me couldn’t wait...

A picket fence and brightly colored front door do not in any way correctly encompass the genre my family falls into. There are no nightly family dinners around the dining table or strict rules prohibiting...

Ladies and gentlemen, let us be honest, as the vast majority of us begin to sprout out of seasonal depression from the unbearably bitter weather, it is easy to say we are ready for summer before we are...

The stereotypical idealistic family: a son, a daughter and both parents pursuing reliable careers while keeping their children disciplined… owning a decently nice home and a few cars, having children...