My dearest Luna,  You have no idea how badly I have longed for you. With every heartbeat and with every drop of blood, I have been yearning for you for as long as I can remember.  When I was young...

Dear TJ,  You have always been here for me, making your way into the world a whole month before I did.  Since birth, we’ve been inseparable, communicating with baby gurgles before we could fully...

If I’m going to be completely honest, I haven’t been a Marvel fan nearly as long as others have been. I was much more interested in movies about princesses and cartoon characters—and especially movies...

The September day was scorching despite it being towards the end of the month. I felt sweat dripping down the back of my neck. Luckily, I left my hair down that day so no one would notice.  I sat beneath...

Junior Jack Woods will do anything to spend time on the water.  During his years in middle school, he attended the summer camp directed at the middle schoolers who have a potential interest in the...

What makes you so appealing? I wake and cannot cease the flow of thoughts about you. You haunt me in my sleep, causing my heartache to deepen. I can’t have you, nobody can.  I dream of finally...

Ever since I was six and finally “mature” enough to watch High School Musical, I have been captivated by the movie. My younger self somehow managed to find a pair of High School Musical pajamas that...

An evening they decided to chase the moon

You used to own my heart.  You had no idea the effect you had on me.  A single glimpse of you would steal all oxygen from my lungs and prevented me from breathing properly until after you were...

Today began with the sounds of torrential rains pounding on the roof, even though I hadn’t slept at all during the night.  I had spent the time scrubbing myself clean of yesterday’s events. My...

As a teenage girl, there is only so much that I can control in my life. Luckily for me, my music taste is one of them.  I have a wide variety of song selections from many genres that somehow manage...

If junior Russell Baird could be any animal in the world, his choice would be a koala—mainly because they spend an average of twenty-two hours a day sleeping while the other two hours are spent lazily...

Weeds are always portrayed as the antagonist.  Why is that? They are only doing what they need to do in order to survive and flourish.  They are seen as evil life needed to be destroyed by sharp...

The only time that I remember hating reading was when my mom would make me work on identifying different roots of words when I was supposed to be enjoying my summer vacation.  Precious time that I...

Childhood is often associated with a place or an object of some sort. Mine happens to be a quaint town on the coast of Lake Michigan.  Particularly a house on top of a bluff, overlooking a lake.  The...

When I first became invested in reading chapter books, realistic fiction was my weakness.  I would devour all I could of that genre until, of course, I was introduced to The Hunger Games.  My first...

When the brown land was first blanketed in a few inches of white, my brothers’ squeals could be heard bouncing off of the trees as they rocketed down the hill on plastic sleds.  I smiled to myself...

Freshman Ellory Zietz has squeezed ten years of fan knowledge into her head in less than two months.  Despite her being a latecomer to the One Direction fandom, her love for the band has resulted in...

For my best friend,  you are one of the most loving people to ever traverse the Earth.  Your smile always lights up the room, and you glow with your love for all creatures—except for snakes and...

Ever since I started high school, sleep is one of the lowest items on my priority list.  Each night I tell my Echo Dot to set an alarm for the next morning, hearing her state that I have only five...

Sophomore Katelynn Heilman is an exact replica of her dad—not physically, but rather her passion for acting and theatre. “I went [on a trip] to Broadway with my dad,” Katelynn said. “We saw...

My Loves, We can never be together. I have known this from the beginning, yet I cannot seem to fathom it.  I long for one moment with you, whether it be a lifetime or a few seconds. I long to see...

Freshman Carlee Cumming is a shopping buff. She has been waking up early to snag the best deals since she was ten-years-old. She would venture out with her Mom and Grandma and hunt for bargains in downtown...

She has been here ever since I can remember. Always appearing at the foot of my bed, although, her views on the world have changed.  Her happiness was evident from the beginning, radiating from...

As the international boy band phenomenon One Direction rose to fame, some of the boys became more popular than others, causing girls’ hearts to melt into a puddle in their shoes. Personally, just seeing...

In the sweltering heat of 2013’s July, nearly 23,000 fans—mostly obsessive young girls—sandwiched into the Palace in Detroit to watch a worldwide phenomenon: the boy band One Direction.  Among...

Dear Whistling Man, How can one measure the worth of another human being?  Perhaps by the number of times that you pushed your oldest daughter in her toy car, sending cascades of laughter to pour...