What is your New Years resolution for 2016? Actually, let me pitch a better question. Have you given up on it yet? If you’re still committed to changing any aspect […]
Editorials
Close to home
On Thursday, Dec. 3, a seven year-old child was gunned down in the parking lot of a recreation center in Taylor, Mich. after her soccer practice. Her mother, who was […]
Registration frustration
Registration for the spring term of classes has already begun for some, and like every registration period, it is a bloodbath. There are no friends when it comes to registration; […]
Early bird
Allow me to paint a picture in your mind. Approximately one hundred individuals sit motionless in a fugue state as images flash before their nearly lifeless eyes and one person […]
Moving in and moving on
On one weekend per year, an endless fleet of U-Haul trucks and jam-packed minivans descend upon Big Rapids as parents say a tearful goodbye and students begin a new semester […]
Haunted?
As I prepare to step into the role of Editor in Chief of the Torch next year, I feel a sense of overwhelming anxiety. No, it isn’t because of the […]
Whims
“Those tickets are $63 apiece for the lower bowl,” a Red Wing ticket agent told me over the phone Eventually, I was going to break journalism’s carnal sin of leading […]
The end
In about two weeks, I’ll be leaving the rec center with a box full of personal belongings, probably looking very distraught. Three years ago this July, Annie Benson, (Or Mary […]
Home?
Where do we belong? By June, the Torch offices will have moved twice in three years. We moved initially from a dingy and cramped space in the basement of the […]
Coachable
One of my great strengths is my ability to emotionally invest in something other than myself. This past summer, I emotionally invested in all of my swimmers. Here’s the story of […]