After another joyous Promenade at Dear Old WT, Ms. Belfiore, Dr. Durnan and I were sharing stories from our own Proms. Capturing a period of the late ‘00s to the early 2010s, our experiences cement a...

This has become quite a common image in my Reddit feed.  If your Reddit feed is more deep-fried memes and funny cat videos, let me recap for you: Outside Chicago, Lake Zurich High School students...

Upon finding out that Mr. Jarrett Krause was in several bands, I dropped a classic piece of Mrs. Sickler lore on him: My dad was once in a band. Mr. Jarrett Krause, an actual band member in several actual...

On the first day of my senior year of college, a professor of mine opened up class with the question, “Why do we think we’re better than people who work at McDonalds?” And my mind went completely...

My father always told me the purpose of Lent is to prove "you are in control of your wants and that your wants are not in control of you." If you are not familiar with a lenten fast, the following definition...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Spotify Wrapped Time!!! I spend the week following the Spotify Wrapped release on Instagram, checking out what friends, ex-boyfriends, and family members have...

As a 30-something millennial, it is my right to like what might be considered bad music. If you grew up in the heyday of Emo and Myspace, you, too, might have questionable taste in musicians. Thus, It...

I got to attend some sick (get it - ha!) concerts this summer.    Let me set the scene. Beginning in July, I taught two weeks of Pre-calculus and then went on to teach two weeks of middle school...

Have you seen these TikToks???         Well, I am unwilling to put myself out there on the TikTok, either because it will blow up, and that’s a PR nightmare for Winchester Thurston, or because...