November is here, but it is not the time for Christmas cheer just yet. I don’t mean to rain (or snow) on your parade, because trust me, I also love the Christmas festivities and the joyous spirit—but...

It is hard to think that you can move everything you need in just an hour. Freshman move-in day seemed to last all day. I even had help from 3 other people.  I recently moved 4 doors down from the dorm...

Guess what day it is. If you guessed Nov. 6th, the first Tuesday of November, you’d be right. But it’s also Election Day. Anyone who is 18 or older has the chance to vote in local elections today...

1. Voting means you care about your community and your state and your country—and it’s important that you vote in elections at all of those levels, because all of the people you vote for will hold...

Recently President Donald Trump remarked in an interview to “Axios on HBO” that he is going to attempt to end birthright citizenship in the United States by enacting an Executive Order.  According...

Recently, I started my practicum teaching at a local high school. Essentially, practicum is student teaching before student teaching, so I am only in the classroom for half the day for half of a semester....

The power children’s literature possesses is something I overlooked until I became a college student. One of my roommates, Jordan, is an education major. Aware of my love for reading, she always shares...

Not everybody celebrates every holiday. To the people who do celebrate Halloween, don’t you feel as though it gets swallowed up by Christmas’s/Hanukkah’s/Kwanzaa’s shadow? Halloween’s moon eclipsed...

May we live in interesting time, eh? Things are ratcheting up. Pipe bombs in the mail is kind of new. Synagogue shootings are sadly, not. The 24-hour news cycles can’t focus too heavily on any one...

I love getting free stuff as much as the next person, but even I know that nothing is really free.  For instance, I recently went through the Starbucks drive thru with my friend. She ordered a drink,...

Welcome to the present day, baby boomers. I know, back in your day, you had to hike ten miles up a mountain (both ways) infested with deadly predators and plants to get to school. Life was much harder...

Halloween is in October, Thanksgiving is in November and Christmas is in December. These are basic facts that nearly everyone understands.This is why it makes no sense that Christmas decorations and...