A Lesson from Governor’s School: How I was taught to accept vulnerability
The gym is silent, and every other dancer is outside. I am sitting in a pool of my own sweat, hair plastered to the side...
Hidden Behind a Mask of Normal: Living with an unseen challenge
Walking through the halls of high school you see the typical: teenagers socializing, living life, stressing, studying, working hard and hardly working. You see the...
What I’ve Learned From Jumping Off Cliffs
Two years ago, I spent an amazing summer on a service trip in a village called Navakawau—translated to “the end of the road”—on the islands...
URL to IRL: How social media has shaped me
The memory of creating my first Instagram account is a vivid one. The girls from my fifth grade class had thrown a sleepover party to...
Puppets for Poverty: One Home makes its first impression
Puppets. Some consider them creepy, and to others, it’s an art form. Northwood High School is having its first puppet show, One Home, Nov. 18-19....
Heading Toward Recovery: Community rallies around Kelsey Eddins
Weeks before her brain surgery, senior Kelsey Eddins had a reoccurring dream of her surgery going wrong. Kelsey sat in the waiting room with her...
Pray or Pass? : Athletes discuss praying before games
Standing hand in hand, eyes closed and heads bowed, teammates pray. Some for safety, some for athletic success and some just trying to support the...
From Left: Why I’m a liberal
I grew up singing songs around camp fires with my eyelids slipping and the heat from the fire on my face. I heard my family...
To Right: Why I’m a conservative
I am a conservative because I was raised on the premise that you get what you put in, and that you can’t expect others to...