Fun fact: Lynlee’s role models are Shakira and Michelle Bachelet. She admires Shakira because mentally, she’s Shakira’s and Pitbull’s love child, and Shakira has “great hair, great hips, and...

It is no secret that I love new music. However, there is a finely printed addendum to my adoration of acclimation. Past the search that I recount at the beginning of each opinion piece and the imagery...

There is nothing more exhilarating for junior Benji Zorn than the sound of a frisbee zooming through the air. As these saucers duck under tree branches and into chainmail goals, there is a certain excitement...

“I appreciate Mrs. DeMeester for being inspiring, kind, and always making class fun and engaging.” “I appreciate Mr. Anderson and Mr. VonEhr. Not only do they dedicate every moment of the school...

Check in every day this week for more thank you notes from students at our school to teachers at our school!

“I appreciate Mr. Fisher because he was really nice and worked hard to make class interesting and make students feel included. I appreciate that he checks in with students and is very understanding.” “One...

“I appreciate Mrs. Lipke for how much she wants us all to succeed; she is always there for help and support and truly gives math her all every day.” “Mrs. Will, thank you for the limitless support...

I've begun burning a Gemini candle my mother gave me nearly a year ago, and even though they have become my constant companions, the fingers and fog at the forefront of my brain are beginning to subside. For...

“I appreciate Mrs. Stone for making math really easy to learn this school year. I felt like her teaching style helped me to understand every unit we did. She also was really gracious [and] let me take...

Film title: Dog or Dawg Genre: Action/adventure Interviewee: Sydney Kushak Group members: Leila Gonzalez and Olivia Hooper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqcjlgeFc1w Can you give a five-minute...

Film title: Delilah  Genre: Comedy  Interviewee: Jack McNamara Group members: Sam Musgraves and Jonah Spates Can you give a five-minute elevator pitch for your film?  “Do you like to...

Name: Mr. Jeff Manders Position: Media Communications Teacher What is Film Fest?  “The FHC Film Festival is the annual opportunity for the FX students to showcase their creativity, production...

Film title: Le Casse  Genre: Thriller  Interviewee: Anna Freihofer Group members: Joe Clancy, Bela Gonzalez, and Maddie Knoor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqYti5GHYzY   Can...

Check out the Q&As below with the participants of the 2021 Film Fest. We interviewed a member of each team to learn more about their movie. Along with interviewing a member from each of the teams,...

The hours between dusk and dawn are blending, sunrise encroaching itself upon her as she sits sprawled across her bedroom floor. Beside her lay technicolor and dried-out paint supplies, a canvas half-covered...

On March 12th, 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services officially announced that all Michiganders 16 and up would be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine....

There were times deep within her childhood that she felt she could talk to the wind. They came on summer mornings and weekend days when the world was whipped with gusts of air, pushing the fairies out...

It is no secret that I love the idiosyncrasies in life. Moments when company is minimal and talking is optional feed my soul—and these times often come at night.  Yesterday evening, my computer had...

There was this world deep within her—a world where morning strolls with one’s walking buddy were enough to soothe the spirits. A world where she was the only one getting old, one where the quickening...

Just like we are so often bound to do, my taste in music travels alongside me through the many phases of my life. The bubbly and selectively charismatic parts of me would not exist if it were not for my...

We were once but flower buds—the kind that peak out shyly during the spring equinox and bring with them an assurance of sunshine. You were ungrown lavender—I a simple sunflower—and together our growing-up...

I’ve never treasured springtime the way I ought to—never valued the rainbows the early March sunshine can cast or the sudden aroma of warmth and brightness. Whether as a result of its many melancholy...

This time a year ago, I would have never considered buying a two-dollar vase from Goodwill, certainly not one painted with daisies and sage green brushstrokes. To be honest, I don’t even know if this...

In a universe often dulled by the dreary day-to-day, my primary source of color has always been film. Given a few hours to kill and a monumental movie, I find myself describing it not through the plot...

Walking into her local Walgreens around this time last year, freshman Madi Evans was bombarded with Valentine’s Day decorations.  From the candy surrounding the register to the end caps that lined...

The backbone of who I am as a person was crafted by the 1994 adaption of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.  From fallen and trodden upon trees to the back seat of my mother’s car, the lives of...

An extremely grainy photo—but nonetheless one of my favorites—from the day I started this list

The first time I was ever left alone with a Sim, I accidentally starved her to death. In a bout of curiosity harbored by my sister leaving the room, I can vividly recollect sliding the hunger bar all...

Senior Maggie Jenkins would reach to call herself an uninteresting person. Whether it be juggling her many hobbies or lazing around with her canine companion, Maggie does not claim to be riveting in the...

They had walked for entirely too long, talked about absolutely nothing, and done naught to better themselves besides be in one another’s presence. However, both held a solemn secret that maybe that was...

I have grappled at straws and rearranged every word in a million different variations in an attempt to make this seem more artistic than it is. Still, no combination of phrases could ever sum up my unique...

The horizon on a beach in Grand Haven, when it was too freezing cold

Junior Lani Quach has a personal vendetta towards athletes, but not in the way that one may think.  Though she has nothing against the pursuits of fitness and recreation in the real world, it is in...

Name: Dr. Anne Keller Classes: AP Language and Composition and Freshman English How many of your classes did you show the inauguration in, and what parts of the inauguration did you show?  “So...

Inauguration Day was a momentous occasion in the capitol—an event with significant precedent that was produced under a warped lens this year, remaining on par with the absurdity and unexpectedness that...

It came just before the impenetrable snow, right at that time when the land becomes coated in a thin sheet of opaque, sepia-toned ice. However, in her mind’s eye, everything was scarlet.  Scarlet...

Despite my little experience in the worlds of love and prose, I enjoy pretending that I’ve traversed these realms enough times to be acquainted with them. I consume period pieces in an attempt to...

Anyone in my extensive family can attest to the fact that, as a child, I was completely unhinged. From a young age, I found that song and dance were the best coping mechanisms for my budding anxiety, and...

Being the baby in my family has always meant that I am the center of attention, especially on Christmas. I always get a few more presents than my older siblings, and even if I have less, the ones I do...

Her hair used to be so golden, bobbling down and over her shoulders and defying the summertime heat. I wished I could be her, and then I realized that maybe I had been all along.  Now it has been cut...

Within the pages of a book, sophomore Kyra Thomas has always found more than words. From reading rendezvous spent in the corner of her childhood dance studio to her fourth-grade classroom filled with the...

If the song "Fine Line" by Harry Styles and "i was all over her" by Salvia Palth had a child, their sweeping yet simplistic tones would combine to create Hulu’s Normal People. Through these songs,...

As the paling moon slips out from underneath its daylit bed covers, words bumble through meadows from under rocks and behind wildflower stalks. Or, plainly put, at night I become exponentially inspired....

Starting in the seventh grade with her initiation into the National Charity League (NCL), freshman Clare Sherman had no idea about all the ways she would fall in love with showing others kindness.  She...

Meggie—my sky blue: I could fill this entire thank you with just the inside jokes we’ve shared, but I will try to craft something more eloquent for creativity’s sake. I am so eternally grateful for...