By Lonyae Coulter, Senior, Kansas City, MO i was quiet, because i thought i had to be, i didn’t want to tell anyone what happened. it could’ve been done to me another time, if i told, i thought maybe i’d get hurt again or wouldn’t be believed. my mind, my temple, my soul, all misused and abused, felt like… Read more →
Month: February 2023
Innocence
By Christina Phillips, Junior I hate the way they call virginity ‘innocence.’ As if sex is the thing that strips a girl of her purity. As if it wasn’t ripped from her shaking hands the first time she was yelled at, either by a woman demanding she wear more or a man demanding she wear less. As if, when… Read more →
Black-Eyed Susan
Kareyn Hellmann, Senior, Strategic Communication, Creative Writing Minor, Paris, Texas Twenty-seven years of watching her shadow dance across the walls, twirling in and out of contact with his own. Twenty-seven years of watching her stare out the window, brooding on the color of the sky – always the color and shape of the sky. Twenty-seven years of placing flowers in… Read more →
The Importance of Self-Care
By Adrienne Stallings, Senior, Bedford, TX We live in a time where it’s almost instinctual to brush off serious issues as jokes. Don’t be mean to him, I’ll whine to my dog as he bullies my cat, he has anxiety. But really, mental health is no laughing matter. We take our physical health seriously—turning to a hospital or Dr.… Read more →
Light in Darkness
By AliceAnn Mosiniak, Junior, Mansfield, TX Read more →
Grey Area Drinking
By Skylar Cain, Junior, Greenwood Village, Colorado Your 20’s are a funny time. You’ll be pulled in a million directions being told you need to make the most of your youth, more often than not, by destroying it. But nobody ever seems to want to admit that. The cold, hard, unignoring truth I crave to know is this; drink, … Read more →
“On a Clear Night” – Melody Bober
Performed by Sylvia Cheney-Irgens, Sophomore, Fort Worth, TX Read more →
History of the Women’s Center
By Anthony Lucido, Senior, Fort Worth, TX The Women’s Center of Tarrant County was founded in 1979 by Karen Perkins, the Board President who became the Executive Director until her retirement in 2004. It was designed to be a nonprofit organization whose purpose was to “address significant problems of violence, crisis, and poverty experienced by women and families in… Read more →
We still pray before dinner.
Emily DuBose, Senior, English, Austin, Texas I guess it’s just habit. We haven’t even been to church in years. Maybe prayer is the sole leftover of decades of monotonous, perfunctory religious practice. Even my mom’s voice as she says the prayer is automatic, dispassionate. She recites the exact same prayer every day. She has it memorized, her tired voice speeding… Read more →
Why Should You Paint? by Lonyae Coulter
Why should you paint? Therapeutic Painting is a therapeutic activity that can help reduce your stress levels and relax. It allows you to focus on what you are creating, stimulating the creative mind and releasing any emotions that may have a mental strain on you. Creativity Painting doesn’t have to have a specific structure. You can create what you… Read more →