For those who don’t know, I don’t really like rom-coms, and after the last couple days, I got a reminder of why. If it wasn’t bad enough that I signed up to watch a rom-com for the newspaper, I ended...
Aoyama Ramen is a generally highly rated ramen shop/restaurant in Olathe, coming to an average of 4.6/5 stars based on platforms Facebook, GrubHub, Postmates, UberEats, DoorDash and Yelp. A new location...
I stepped through the tall grass and sticks crunch beneath my feet. The pale grass brushed against my hip. I could see the tree line about 150 meters ahead. That’s where we headed. The trees. If you...
She’s glaring at me but I’m glaring back because I mean business. The small, chrome packaged box of the L’Oreal Feria “EXTRA Bleach Blonde” hair bleach in one hand, disposable gloves in the other....
Imagine a student: 16 years speaking, writing and reading Spanish. Yet as the first minutes of a high school Spanish class begin to unfold, he immediately notices this isn’t his Spanish.
Words like...
Everyone has heard the stereotype of immigrant parents who push their children to get perfect grades and to one day become a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.
Obviously not everyone is the same, but in...
The clock is five minutes away from 4 p.m. I walk through the lobby of the restaurant. The smell of oil and fries fills my nose as I get closer to the kitchen — it’s a smell I’m all too familiar...
February 4th, 2022.
The hospital room is tense, I’m tense. I lay in a bed with the hospital gown, absolutely unprepared. My heart beats faster, the nurse looking at me with sympathy, my face feels...
My hands reached for the fourth monkey bar–green and wet from the rain. In mid-air, I was confident. I knew I had reached it before.
“No, look, I can!” I had said.
And all of a sudden,...
I stare at the math test in front of me, my eyes brimming with tears.
The equations printed on the page look like nonsense. I don’t know the answers — and that’s never supposed to happen.
But...
In the fall of 2019, my mom constantly came home exhausted from work. Tired from the kids, as a school social worker, all she wanted to do was lie down in bed. She denied my dad’s attempts at long conversations...
Picture this: you’re a child sitting on your couch, and you see your favorite character from the book your mom reads to you before bed on the TV screen. Winnie the Pooh, but bloodied and deranged. You’re...
