Community is a strong word. Your friends, family, acquaintances, neighbors, the people who go to your high school, the people who live in your town. The city of Puyallup is a historic town, created in...

I grew up at the zoo.   While I wasn’t literally raised at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, I had such an attachment that it already felt like my home. I’ve been going to the zoo since...

2022, first day of sophomore year, room 162. The room had very tall desks with tall chairs to match. On top the desks sat large laptops connected to mounted desktops.   Every inch of the...

 Somewhere in Texas in 2011, I was accompanying my mom in races across the state, sitting in the running stroller as her unofficial cheerleader. I enjoyed the thrill of moving at breakneck speeds...

I will say it outright: You will never meet the standard of “good enough.”  Though it is a harsh sentiment, there is no use in dancing around the truth. There will always be some aspect of...

It was early on in my first year of high school swim when I first realized that my school had a newspaper.   The desk of the pool had a stack of the most recent issue of the Viking Vanguard,...

High school can be overwhelming. There are so many things that come up, in what sometimes feels like random times, that it may cause student’s heads to spin with all the information or contrarily, that...

A flip phone at 15 is unheard of; it’s something you just don’t hear of anymore.    There’s fifth graders who have the newest iPhone, not because they need it, which they don’t,...

For one week every July, a patch of forest located just off a main road in Pierce County, between shopping centers and suburbia, becomes a whole world of magic.  I first came to Camp Oh Ah Lay...

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