Author: Kate Schifano
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Yuletide Legends: Cozy, Curious Christmas Traditions From Around The Globe
Image Source: Pexels- Sean Twomey Across the Northern Hemisphere, winter once signaled a season of long nights, cold landscapes, and the annual return of folkloric figures. Before electric lights and mall Santas softened the edges of December, midwinter festivals often blended celebration with superstition. Entire communities gathered to honor ancestors, guard against wandering spirits, and…
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Season 3 Of The Summer I Turned Pretty And The Madness And Magic Of Growing Up
Image Source: Unsplash- Noah Morgan There’s something magical about the kind of TV that makes you feel like you’ve been transported — not just to a place, but to a time. The Summer I Turned Pretty has always promised that: sunsets in Cousins, flip-flops slapping against wooden decks, a soundtrack made for late-night drives, and…
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Twenty Lessons I Learned in My Twenties: A Retrospective On A Chaotic Decade
Image Source: Unsplash- David Holifield By the time this article is published…it will have happened. I will have turned thirty, marking the end of a tumultuous decade. I laughed and cried and changed more in my twenties than I ever thought possible. I got married. I moved away from my hometown and back again twice…
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The Curious Case Of Tampa’s Forcefield: And What Will Happen When It Fails
Beginning with the historic 2004 hurricane season, in which five hurricanes hit Florida in six weeks, Tampa Bay has had a miraculous streak of near-misses with major hurricanes. In 2004, Hurricane Charlie was forecasted to make landfall in the Bay Area as a Category Four storm before suddenly and unexpectedly turning and landfalling in South Florida…
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Spoiler Alert: You’re Thinking About Autism All Wrong
On the eve of my twenty-sixth birthday, I frantically googled the phrase, I don’t feel like a real person. This online investigation came during a mental health crisis that has come to define most of my mid-twenties. Two years prior, I began suddenly experiencing recurrent panic attacks, derealization episodes, and a rapidly developing case of…
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Voting
Thomas Jefferson once said, “We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.” With that in mind, the question becomes: Who is the participatory majority in the United States? Historically, those who are aged 60 years and older are the most active demographic of the electorate, with their…