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- Dec 1, 2019
- 3 min
AUGUST: The Book That Broke Then Healed Me
By: Michelle Nedboy Over the summer, I asked my mom for a book recommendation from one of her thousands of texts. She went into her home office (also known as the guest bedroom) and looked through a few of her book cabinets, which hadn’t been opened in a long while. It took some fussing, but she managed to find me a block of text from 1983, called “August.” A whopping 557 pages. How was I going to finish this before school? I didn’t. I instead read a measly 58 pages during th
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
dodie: A Damn Good Time
By: Katherine Goldblatt Buying last-minute tickets to dodie’s concert at Terminal 5 in New York City has to be one of the best impulsive decisions I have ever made. The singer, famous from her YouTube channel doddleoddle, put on one of the best concerts I have ever been to. Playing a variety of old tunes and newer hits, she managed to captivate the venue. The atmosphere was chill. There was no pushing to get a better view in the general admission pit; everyone was just enrapt
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