The summer before my sister’s junior year, I cried because I knew there were only two years before she left for college and a whole chapter of my life would end. As my junior year comes to a close, my...

My dad brings me my lunch when I forget it. He tutored me in math when I needed it. He taught me how to drive a stick even though it took a whole month. He has spent countless hours helping me write speeches...

The week of April 15, pro-life protestors from the group Abolish Human Abortion stood outside various buildings and interacted with students, taping some footage and uploading it to YouTube. Some featured...

     I stare out the window of the plane, wondering and asking God why. I look over to my dad, who sits quietly in his seat, just staring straight ahead. I wish I could say something to him, but I...

An oily sheen appears to coat its surface. A purple glove haunts its corners. Aluminum cans cluster underneath the bridge. Styrofoam containers and plastic bags float until they gradually sink in the murky...

It doesn’t take much to hide it from the world. Maybe a pair of oversized sweatpants or a shirt with long, opaque sleeves. Yet, it was responsible for 633,000 emergency room visits in 2009 alone, according...

When I was 7, I got the terrible news. All my life it had just been my mother and me. I liked it like that and in my mind it was the correct family. I didn’t need a dad or brothers or sisters or...

When I was a little girl, I was overly anxious and fearful. In every experience I would find something to fret about that would nag me for days, until I found the next thing to replace it. I believed every...

     There was a terrible rumor spreading through the halls of Wilson Middle School – leggings were going to be banned. As far as we were concerned, there was no logical basis behind this ban. As...

I stare at the pink and white flowers delicately floating in the water under the white memorial. For an instant I’m struck still. I’m unable to move as terror seizes me. I imagine the sight that occurred...

I sat in an uncomfortable green chair on the fourth floor in the 18th room to the left. I was holding my day-old cousin in my arms. She was small and red all over. To me, she was ugly. She was the newest...

Sometimes it doesn’t take a swarm of people for me to become lost in a crowd. Sometimes I get lost when I’m just with a group of friends at lunch. It’s a different kind of lost, though. In crowds...