The following is a speech I wrote for my high school's commencement ceremony. If you have speeches that you'd like to guest publish, get...

Two years ago— March 13, 2020— was the first day of the pandemic in the United States, and, for the bubble in which I live, today may be...

I knew for a fact that the pandemic had dragged on too long when the local Covid test administrator for my school recognized me for...

Hi again. I feel like I blinked in the spring, and now it’s the middle of July and months have passed since my last post. Pollen-soaked...

It’s been a while since my last post, and I apologize. My past few weekends, the last I’d spend at school, have been especially precious,...

Hello again! I’m back, with a post(poned) that has been written in moments stolen from pressing assignments and uninteresting Zoom...

As we approach the year mark of time spent quarantined, there’s finally hope that the vaccine will be distributed quickly enough to save...

Despite the semi-ironic fears expressed by most corners of the internet that humanity’s comically awful year would simply refuse to end...

As I’m writing, it’s the nine-month anniversary of the last day of pre-pandemic school, March 13th, the day where I remember thinking I...

Now that it’s almost Thanksgiving, students are finally getting a welcome break from a uniquely taxing semester. As I’m writing this,...

To state that a lot has happened since my last post would be greatly understating the matter. In the past month, we've dealt with another...

It's October, the formerly-titled "spooky season" in a year where campy movies about murderous ghosts, plucky teenagers, and comically...

Hi readers! I present to you: a post that is shorter than normal (blame my mismanagement of my workload, or the fact that not much has...

Although the Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our lives for almost half a year, the United States continues to struggle through various...

The fall is finally here, in function if not in cooler temperatures, and most American high-school students have returned to classes...

It's been almost five months now of mandatory masking, 6-foot shuffling in grocery aisles, and attempting to keep social connections...

As July draws to a fiery close, specifics about the impending school year hang still in the humid, stagnant air. In-state vacations...

So, it's been 120 days. Four months have passed since I've attended in-person school, left my neighborhood without a mask, or hugged a...

There's clearly more than 104 days of Coronacation, and it might be a while before in-person school comes along to end it. My school just...

I've decided that, from now on, these posts will continue to be biweekly, because not enough is changing in my life to warrant a post...