The Healing of Black Women Alicia Brown Black women are told from a young age and reminded throughout their life that navigating through society as a woman of color will always come with certain challenges that non-black people will never understand. When embracing womanhood as a Black woman, there are certain unspoken rules that Black women must follow …
Role Models by Larissa Sese-Khalid I met one of my first role models in a hospital. This experience happened when my sister cut open her knee and had to go to the hospital to get it treated. Occasionally, I believe that my sister can be a clumsy person. The time my sister injured her …
Premonition Beneath the queasy clenching of my stomach, it’s there. It sits there brewing in the acids, under partially digested lunch. I don’t remember lunch; somehow it blended into a blurry afterthought and—maybe I should fix myself something to eat. I can’t recall eating anything, but I get the funny feeling I might be …
Personal Values by Aaliyah Sese-Khalid I believe that possessing good values is important. Values are important because they make up a part of me. I gained this belief from observing my parents throughout my life. My parents are very hardworking people and they work a lot so that they can support me. I’m very …
Two poems by Lindsay Bernhards *** The Wildflowers In my dreams, I see myself wandering through a field of wildflowers that wave to me as the wind passes by, and brush my ankles with their stems. I plant my knees in the dirt and ask: Do you ever fear that the cloudless sky won’t give …
Time for Mental Health by Mitchell Nicolai I believe that one’s mental health is the most important part of one’s well-being. In quarantine, during Covid, I found myself in a different kind of health battle. I wasn’t sick, but I felt off. There was something wrong even though I showed zero physical signs of …
My son’s name is Pendar. The word Pendar stems from the Zorastrian religion — good sayings, good actions, good ponderings. I remember when he was not even a year old, he was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. And as he grew older he became severely autistic. My life was filled with reading books …
Two Poems by Saundra BC The Signer & the Singer I saw a signer signing signs to a singer who knows signs The singer sang while the signer signed from the list of synonyms in the song I saw a singer watching a signer who saw a sign swinging and swaying The swaying sign …
Something Dreadful by David Hibbs I haven’t always believed what I am about to say, but over the past few years, it has developed into my daily life. I believe that you must do at least one thing every day that sucks. Something that is dreadful, something challenging, something that, at the end of …
The American Dream by Brandon Herrera I believe in the American Dream. The reason I say this is because all my life I have been taught that you need to have a good job so you can make good money and a property so you can start your family. So to me, the American Dream …
Anxiety feels like Saying you’re okay after having an attack you can’t describe The doctor says that happy pills are the only thing they can prescribe A rushing wave that keeps pulling you in When you try to come up from the air your keep sinking in The pressure of rushing water makes it unbearable …
Right Person, Wrong Time by Kirsten Buenafe Something I believe in is right person, wrong timing. Everyone may not believe it is true but in my scenario it is. I have made many long-distance friends due to the course of the impact from the covid-19 pandemic. It was hard not seeing my irl friends in …
Water Is Thicker Than Blood by Naya Sanchez-Sanabria I have never believed in the saying that “blood is thicker than water.” It never made sense to me because I knew that it wasn’t true. One of the most important moments in my life is when I met my step-dad for the first time. I …
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I Believe in Self-Love by Ana Rosario Self-love is a concept that is relatively new to me. While self-love is something that exists in all human beings, it is not something we are often taught to prioritize. Mainly out of fear of being perceived as arrogant or conceited. Although, I feel the concept of …
Hard Work Pays Off by Samuel Oteng I believe that hard work pays off. I remember the first time my dad brought home two professional cameras when I was 12. He was a photographer in Italy before coming to the United States. He drove two hours away to a camera store and bought 2 …
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