The archive
By Lexi Lunsford, Guest Writer Learning to drive comes with many rules, all to ensure safety. Fasten your seatbelt, press the brake to start the car and ease onto the road with caution. Allow your eyes to constantly search for what comes next and keep…
By Charlotte Wood, Guest Writer If I have learned one thing, it is that stars do not fit into circles. You know those baby toys with plastic shapes — a triangle, a square, a circle and a star. One by one, a child learns where…
By Kate Chumley, Guest Writer The house is cold and bare. The shutters covering the dusty windows are shutting out the outside light. The rooms match the feeling of the house. There is emptiness within the house and there is no welcome. The house did…
By Kylie Kisgen, Guest Writer “Everything in moderation,” the saying goes. Practice, school, work, hobbies, down time, quiet time, eating, walking, driving, cleaning, grocery shopping, laundry. Don’t forget to take out the trash, pour into your relationships, walk the dog, turn in your assignment by…
By Madelyn Tullos, Online Editor-in-Chief Being a woman is hard. Or maybe we just decided to make it that way. We befriend the mirror but sometimes it feels more like an enemy. We’ve created girl math to excuse our expensive taste. We don’t like to…
By Kylie Kisgen, Guest Writer My biggest pet peeve is passive aggressive people. I extremely dislike this characteristic specifically in adults. I have seen passivity ruin cultures, environments, experiences, conversations, communities, and relationships. Passivity bleeds from one person to the other. I like to think…
By Charlotte Wood, Guest Writer My freshman year, a girl in my public speaking class asked if we could be best friends. I was a bit thrown off guard because, in my mind, this kind of thing only happened in kindergarten. You normally don’t just…
By Sadie Davis, Staff Writer What do you think of when someone mentions Easter? I think of pastel colors, the light and airy feeling of spring, flowers blooming in gardens, the dresses girls wear for pictures and gatherings after the holiday church service. And, of…
By Emerson Thompson, Staff Writer The Superbowl has always been more than a championship game. It is an annual mark in time of shifting cultures, shared experiences that blend sports, advertising, music and community into one national holiday. This year’s commercials made one thing stand…
By Jacie Sellars, Print Editor-in-Chief When we open up the news, it’s easy to feel saddened and discouraged by current political events, especially regarding immigration. From the violence displayed by ICE officers to the stories from detainment centers like the CECOT prison in El Salvador,…
By Madelyn Tullos, Online Editor-in-Chief I find myself wondering if the womb breeds claustrophobia. Babies spend months trapped in a confined space. They kick and squirm but go unanswered. Their movement becomes reduced to proof for bystanders who place their hands on a pregnant belly…
By Kate Chumley, Guest Writer This pet peeve of mine is not one that you think of right off the top of your head. This may not affect you but for me, it paralyzes me. Sending a shock wave of bumps across my arms and…
