In February 2018, 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. It’s been almost a month since the shooting, and I can feel the news cycle moving on. The media has gone back to starting...
$1,400,000,000,000.Americans owe over $1.4 trillion in student loan debt, according the Federal Reserve. That’s more than the gross domestic product of 183 countries. Let’s take that in: Americans...
It is true that you never really know what someone is going through.On March 6, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love published a piece called “Everyone is Going Through Something” on Player’s...
I have a confession to make. It was Saturday night, I was watching Safe Haven — yes, the adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel — for the first time, and I cried. Not once, but twice. And what pisses...
I’d like to share something with you all, dear readers.As an article from Healthline called “Depression and Mental Health by the Numbers: Facts, Statistics, and You” by Ann Pietrangelo highlights,...
What is it like to live under apartheid?Imagine rifling through papers at military checkpoints between where you live and where you work. Imagine tall fences with barbed wire severing your home from precious...
While the debate about school safety continues in wake of recent school shooting scares, another story involving schools has possibly gone unnoticed by much of the country. Over the past week, teachers...
Every night, before I fall asleep, I spend anywhere between 10 minutes to an hour on my phone. Usually, it’s scrolling through Twitter, finding a random tweet thread about the astrological signs as “Muppets”...
In the wake of the school shooting that left 17 people, many of them teenagers, dead — the latest episode in the tightly-scheduled programming of American mass murders — gun control proposals permeate...
I’ll be honest: Sometimes, writing about what President Trump does, says or tweets feels a little too easy. Low-hanging fruit and all that, right?“You know, I really believe — you don’t know until...
As we all grieve the horrible school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead — most of them kids — the American argument on guns continues. Most people in this country believes new laws need to...
Dear Editor:I believe that most of us, Americans, have been victims of bullying and/or some form of abuse at some time in our lives. As a former counselor and therapist, I worked with and tried to help...
