[The Story Behind] St. Patrick’s Day

March 8, 2010  
Filed under Columns, From the Heart

By Shelly Voss    Just inside the doors of Old Navy, I was confronted with mountains of green St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts. “Kiss the Irish,” “Lucky Me,” and “St. Patrick’s Day 2010” is apparently what we as United States consumers should be wearing March 17th. I don’t know about you,... Read more »

Behind Innocent Lines

February 17, 2010  
Filed under Columns, From the Heart

By Shelly Voss    I was horrified to watch my little brothers sniping civilians in an airport yesterday.    Kids these days! We entertain ourselves with violence, sex, crude jokes that aren’t funny at all, and breathe things into our lungs and minds that were never intended to be.    Innocence... Read more »

Epic Resolutions

January 12, 2010  
Filed under Columns, From the Heart

By Shelly Voss    We all know how it goes.    When a new year starts, its “out with the old and in with the new” and people everywhere are suddenly frantically resolving to lose weight, get better grades, and become the person they’ve always wanted to be. We all start off with incentive…we... Read more »

Special Edition: Texting

January 12, 2010  
Filed under Teenage Vocabulary

   By Kaitlin Hutson    This is the special edition of ‘Beasting’ Your Way Through an Adolescent Vocabulary were we go through almost every acronym used in text messages across the U.S.A (United States of America), and translate them for a better understanding. There are many different acronyms... Read more »

GIVE thanks.

November 20, 2009  
Filed under Columns, From the Heart

By Shelly Voss    As a slight chill infiltrates the November air, I sip a pumpkin spice Starbucks latte and take in the beauty of the golden hues that now grace the leaves on the trees (…and the leaves on the ground…). Everyone’s favorite holiday is Christmas, right? No doubt, it’s the most... Read more »

‘Beasting’ Your Way through an Adolescent Vocabulary

October 8, 2009  
Filed under Columns, Teenage Vocabulary

By: Lauren Smith and Kaitlin Hutson Attention Adults: Have you been hearing things and not knowing what they mean? Do you feel lost in translation, just walking down the hallway? Fear not, for you do not have to sacrifice your maturity, by asking what something means any longer. We have your very own... Read more »