In elementary school, I decorated a brown paper bag in the hope of earning the most valentines from my classmates. The best-decorated bag usually earned the most pieces of paper with your name and a...
Despite the worst six days of my life when I thought I would look good as a blonde, I’m not Taylor Swift.
But after watching her recently released Netflix documentary Miss Americana, I realized that...
A week after the caucuses, two temptations arose for Iowa caucusgoers.
One was the ease of bashing the caucus process and jumping into the melee on whether the events of Feb. 3 were a fluke or a symptom...
Attendees at the 2020 Academy Awards spewed sanctimonious speeches nearly every time the chance allowed. Permit 45 seconds for speech, mix the wielding of a golden trophy, a splash of political jargon,...
What comes to mind when hearing “congenital heart defect”? Most people probably have no idea what congenital means. As someone who has this condition, I know the word means present since birth.
February...
The Iowa Democratic Party, led by Chairman Troy Price, has received a great deal of criticism than it actually deserves for its botched caucus job Monday night.
As a staunchly conservative Republican,...
“And the Oscar goes to… Parasite.”
I shrieked loudly at my laptop screen in total joy. The Dolby Theater roared.
I watched as South Korean director Bong Joon Ho ascended to the stage to receive...
With the Iowa caucuses come and gone, the end of the Democratic presidential-nomination race is in sight. With Democrats finally deciding who they actually support in the primary, the online sphere has...
A week removed from the Iowa caucuses, and we’re still in disarray.
Many Democrats remain outraged by the Iowa Democratic Party’s actions, including those who competed for support in the caucuses....
Thousands of Iowans rallied together in support of presidential hopefuls during Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses on Monday. Across the state, thousands of classrooms, libraries and gyms were crowded...
Service animals and emotional-support animals do not have the same responsibilities, and their titles are not interchangeable.
As somebody who got an emotional-support animal when I was 17 years...
Remember the Ebola virus? What about the Zika virus?
Both were epidemics during the 2010s that caused considerable anxiety for many Americans — and reasonably so. When there’s an outbreak,...
