The audience at the Avila’s Goppert Theater erupts into cheers and the curtain closes for intermission as junior Angela Griffin darts for the exit. She has merely minutes to get from Avila back to school...

Reaching into my closet, my hand brushed a well-worn St. Teresa's Academy tartan plaid uniform skirt, gravitating towards it simply by habit. Moving past it, I grab a stiff grey kilt and put it on for...

We all know the feeling. Strolling into your seventh hour class, butterflies in your stomach, you silently pray that the coming snowstorm is big enough to cancel school the next day. The announcements...

We anxiously peered over the Gate 57 walls at the Kansas City International airport. Dozens of travelers with bags in hand waltzed off the plane, making their way towards the baggage claim. Adorned...

The heartbreak hung thick in a room full of high schoolers with heads hanging low. In a group that would normally be booming with laughter and excited exchanges, muffled sobs and sniffles were the only...

I held up UMKC student Krissy’s cell phone in the kitchen window and smirked, the laughs of my siblings and I echoing throughout the house as we dialed in her boyfriend’s phone number. She was locked...

My alarm buzzed as I rolled over in bed, and I noticed it was still pitch black outside. What the heck. Why am I awake when the sun isn’t even awake yet. I glance at the clock which reads 6 a.m., and...