When I finally got my driver’s license senior year, the excitement that came with this newfound privilege and freedom quickly waned as I realized that I would now be responsible for taking my sister, a freshman at the time, to school.
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This is How We Lost Each Other
Just as we’re starting to establish a tradition, phone calls around midnight, every night except on Saturdays, my six sevenths.
Kate Carroll: The True Cost of Being Prom Queen
Prom: an uninspiring weekend where you play make-believe as royalty. You’re pretending that you are something with a $600 dress you’ve convinced yourself that you’ll wear again, until someone vomits on you. Time, energy, and focus are wasted on an overhyped event that ends in disappointment, disaster or mediocrity. Some of us aren’t even theContinue reading “Kate Carroll: The True Cost of Being Prom Queen”
We forgot how to be happy
Happiness is the old song on the radio from 2005, your dirty little secret, your unknown jam. It plays in a store, it comes up on shuffle, it hits you like a nostalgic blast from the past. It is fighting the urge to break out in dance in public, or letting the music take youContinue reading “We forgot how to be happy”
Waffle House on Christmas Day
Waffle House is open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. At Waffle House, the cooks greet you as you walk in the door. They force you to pay at the register so you have to make small talk with the cashier. If you sit in one of those chairs at the counter, youContinue reading “Waffle House on Christmas Day”
Cat Zhang 