“Ew, what is this?” a student remarked at my food during a middle school lunch. The food was dumplings.  My heart rate accelerated like a race car, trying to process that comment. My jaws dropped,...

Sadly, Covid is still keeping many of us from getting to the barber. Suppose that you are looking for a new look after lockdown ends, and you want to try something new. Maybe go back to an old classic...

July, a month of long summer nights and escapes to the shore, is perhaps best characterized by its fourth day. Indeed, since its first commemoration in 1777, not one year has passed without recognition...

Last night at 6:32 pm, the school administration announced on Schoology that today, January 26, would be a synchronous eight period day, scraping the plans for a much needed asynchronous workday due to...

“YESTERDAY, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan,” Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

2020. COVID-19. Millions infected and hundreds of thousands dead. Businesses closing. Events canceled. Quarantines.  2020. Racism. Yet another person killed by the police. Calls for solutions and change.  2020....

“Is wearing a lei offensive?” a friend anxiously asks me as we converse about what to bring to Hawaiian spirit day. Her question was not strange to me, I had posed similar questions to myself occasionally....

At ten years old I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a chronic, incurable illness. Coming to terms with my T1D has been the biggest challenge of my life. I was pessimistic, frustrated, and...

In 2016, they said that America wasn’t ready for a woman president. That was an excuse, an explanation with no merit intended to keep women in the same “ inferior”  position as the past 240 years. ...

A pile of assignments. An oncoming wave of tests. A breakup. A mediocre GPA. Each of us can associate with the stress and sleep-loss of one of these mountains. Right now, however, this mountain has a fifth...

Amy Coney Barrett is now, officially, a United States Supreme Court Justice. This is not your average appointment, having occurred just eight days previous to the presidential election and having brought...

Imagine this: it's eleven o’clock on election night and the results show President Trump in the lead, causing him to declare victory on Twitter. But in the following days, as states begin to count mail-in...

If time travel were a thing, I would have loved to be in 1876 to compare notes. It’s quite a coincidence how the current climate of the US and its environment in 1876, socially, economically, and, most...

In the final days before Halloween arrives, people are fine tuning their costumes for this year. Even though there is a global pandemic going on, we still HAVE to have our Halloween. As kids, we always...

This time four years ago, the results of the upcoming presidential election seemed obvious — Clinton would win. Many  Democratic Americans felt confident in the weeks leading up to Voting Day. As an...