In front of our destination, I see big, hunchbacked brown buffalo roaming freely in the bare grassland between them and the outer road. We take the slightly curved exit and then make a right turn;...

Olmsted Falls, Ohio only has a population of 15,000 people and is the quintessential example of small-town suburbia. After moving there in eighth grade, I soon learned Olmsted Falls was everything about the suburbs that everyone hates; it was small, and it was boring. And whoever created the movie Mean Girls must’ve lived there at one point in their life. I had the same sense of astonishment that Cady Heron, played by Lindsey Lohan, had in Mean Girls, walking into the Olmsted Falls Middle School cafeteria for the first time, as she did during the lunch room scene in the movie. Each table held a stereotypical "clique" that one would only imagine to see in a film. There were band geeks, cheerleaders and football players, kids with skateboards, kids with piles of books, kids who would not stop singing and kids judging the outfits of students who would walk past their table.

When I was a younger, I worshiped the man known as Walt Disney. Walt Disney could solve all my problems with any of his films. I grew up yearning to be a princess and was constantly on the lookout for...

Yesterday could not have been an easy day to be Mark Maus. After an email to RBHS teachers outlined the most recent proposal for start times, many were miffed, to say the least, that high school was scheduled...

Recently, a myriad of tabloids exploded with juicy celebrity headlines splashed over scandalous black and white photos on the glossy covers of magazines, detailing the renewing of a romantic relationship...

Your browser does not support the audio element. This is a satirical piece. BREAKING NEWS: Columbia Public Schools has released a new proposal regarding school start times that does not at all contradict...

According to collegeboard.org, the College Board's "membership of educators" created the SAT in 1926 to "democratize access to college for all students." Each academic year, nearly three million students...

Your browser does not support the audio element. While my family hung garland and interwove lights on the main banister last year, I sat in our study, alone, playing video games. Although I wanted to...

Your browser does not support the audio element. This past summer, America lit up her national spirit and celebrated her historic revolutionary success; I spent it drowning in the darkness of fear. Unlike...

Little white lies. They’re innocent enough. Lying to people about how good their cooking is can’t really hurt them. And when you’re late, it’s much easier to blame the traffic than yourself. In...

Click here to listen to Maria read her commentary. Most days,  my life with a Greek father is normal. Occasionally conversations switch between English and Greek, and we do cook with a lot of olive...