Tears forming at the corners of my eyes, a Kleenex in hand, and the shouting of family members surrounding me were enough to express the feelings I was experiencing. The Rangers had lost the World Series...
So Halloween has just ended. Normally, I am all for pumpkins and witches and ghosts and the one time of year when it is socially acceptable for complete strangers to offer candy to small children. But...
You are walking down the halls, getting from Spanish to whatever. You may be alone, you may be chatting with a friend. Then, all of a sudden, you see, coming the opposite direction, your best friend Susie,...
Which is better: fun and funny or creepy and scary?
For some people, Halloween is a chance to dress up in a hilarious costume, hang out with friends, get colossal amounts of candy, and have fun. For...
In elementary school, Halloween was about one thing: candy. The more candy you accumulated in one night, the more successful your Halloween was. It was a time when king-size candy bars were worth their...
I usually hate hearing about people’s summer vacations. I really do. Although there are exceptions, unless something ridiculously and unmistakably exciting happened, I’m sure most of us really would...
I was four years old when the attack of 9/11 took place. I remember it briefly but our country remembers it like it was yesterday. The pain and sorrow is still in all of our hearts. An eye for an eye,...
Budget cuts. Those two words have been the talk of the public schools in Texas for the past six months. And now that school has started again, students are really noticing the effects of these slashes...
I’m a concert nerd, or rather, an aficionado. I have been to upwards of thirty concerts throughout the past four years of high school, in addition to several music festivals including Van’s Warped...
