I am approaching another trip around the sun completed, and what I am about to say is cliche but I am okay with it. 31 has felt like an eternity, yet I still feel like I am living in my mid twenties. …

Legs involuntarily shaking. The chalk I coated my weathered hands with being left behind the higher I get leaving my security one hold behind. My heart beats to a quicker tempo and I am not sure I can keep up with the new racing cadence. I look down. 15 feet…

I’ve been traveling a lot for work lately. This means long car rides, sitting at schools by myself, and very lonely hotel rooms. Now, I don’t want to sound ungrateful, because I am beyond grateful for this last month of work and learning new things. I say all these things…

Kayla Carnes — It’s 11:28am and I am on the verge of tears for the thirteenth time today. Not because it’s day 5,029,632,764 of quarantine. Not because I’m any more tired, lonely, pissed off or agitated than I have been since the genesis of the Great 2020 Dumpster Fire. There is nothing particularly…

Grace Martin — I like to have control and be in control of my life. I plan, organize, and format everything to fit perfectly so that I can have security. Sometimes I forget that I could do nothing without God first allowing me. I forget that God is in control and knows everything…

Alleigh Welgoss — Ah, COVID-19. Caught in the back of my throat, I choke the name up. Comes off the tongue like a curse word. Corona. The crowning achievement of 2020. My “I was supposed to” still hangs in the air, dangling, I try to catch it before it reaches the ears of…

Alysa Sharp — Much like this year of 2020 I have no idea what I am really going to write, the ambiguity of it all has begun to become a normalized lifestyle I believe; not truly knowing what will happen next. …

Tanja Schödler — As an avid journaler, I thoroughly documented my life during lockdown. March 15th “They closed all the skiing resorts yesterday. Bummer big time. Things are changing fast. Every day we wake up with new restrictions”. March 16th: “Life is a s**tshow.” March 17th: “Everyone cancels everything. I hate it. …

Sara MacIntosh — Connection. Connection is something that has always intrigued me. What deems one connected to another? Is it a similarity in lifestyle choices? The commonality of faith-based views? Agreeing on politics? Age? Culture? Upbringing? …