When cool air brushes in and the sunlight dims, I realize that I am not at home. It is six o'clock, and I am in Budapest, a city in a country I’d never imagined I would experience in the middle of my senior year of high schoo...
One of my close friends lost his life after a battle with mental illness. The first thing his family did was post to social media to raise awareness about checking with those closest to you and having open conversations. Toda...
9 a.m. - The alarm sounds and I wake with the feeling of a pit in my stomach. I lie there for a few short minutes thinking of the day I am about to have. I get up, shower, diffuse my hair, put on the already pre-set outfit I ha...
“Congrats,” they tell her, and she smiles because she really is happy.
But she’s also so many other things.
She’s a rainbow of feelings.
She’s red with fear,
green with joy,
orange with excitement,
and blue wi...
It’s the beginning of the school day, and you are barely awake, so you drink steaming hot coffee while you rush to get a good parking spot and when you finally pull into the parking lot, everyone is parking at once because they...
