Life Skills or Busy Work: What is school really teaching me?
We go to school for 13 years of our life. Thirteen years of sitting in a classroom listening to teachers talk about a huge assortment...
Wait, what was my headline again?
Do you remember how you met your best friend? How about the best sleepover you’ve ever had? Or maybe your elementary school years?...
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...
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...
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...
Change Has Come: Chatham Park takes over my hometown
I’ll miss the trees: towering green pines and poplars lining the backroads and highways. I’ll miss the rural serenity of Chatham County is what I...
Acting Like Myself: How theatre has changed my role in life
It is not brave to perform. It is selfish and cowardly and harmful. It is to hide in plain sight and allow all your problems...
Sealed but Never Sent: My struggle to reconnect with my father
Every year for the past 10 years, I’ve written letters to my dad that I’d never send. Father’s Day and Christmas cards are piled in...