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The Nostalgic Commercialism of Holiday Time
At 13, I stopped posing for Christmas cards. I finally felt too old to dress up in red and green and stand with my dog on the front steps for a photograph that would be placed on a bookshelf or a...
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Margin Notes: To Do Before Graduation
This column, I realize, is the second to last I’ll write before graduation. Technically, this is the last column I’ll write as a student, considering that my next column will be published after the big...
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Margin Notes: Independence Revisited
In my first column for this newspaper, I wrote about “independence.” Having just completed my freshman year, I saw college as independence: you lived in a dorm, made new friends, learned to adjust to a...
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Margin Notes: Star-Studded Vacations
The summer after my high school graduation, my mom and I took a road trip to Tennessee, stopping in North Carolina and South Carolina along the way. The purpose of the trip, in what we imagined to be...
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Margin Notes: Letter from the Future
It’s sometime in the future, and you’re reading this on the library’s equivalent of microfilm because newspapers, as long feared, are out of print. Well, not all print. The top two national...
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Margin Notes: Defining the Decade
This month feels overwhelmed by lists. There are holiday wish lists, gift shopping lists, to-do lists before you get a few days off or take a vacation, lists of subscriptions you have to renew or...
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Margin Notes: Masks for Hospitals
In the hours before and after performing surgery, Sue Harrington makes masks. A veterinarian at Randolph Animal Hospital, Harrington knows how important proper personal protective equipment (PPE) is...
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Margin Notes: New Principal in Town
Minutes after the first day of school let out at Canton High School, the fire alarm went off, capping off an already tumultuous start to the school year. Technically, this was the third “first day of...
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Margin Notes: Savor the Moment
Around this time last year, I made social plans for the first time in five months. Case numbers had gone down enough that my family felt comfortable venturing outside of our household. I traded my...
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Searching for St. Gerard’s
If you were to walk into my childhood bedroom, you’d think I was still 13 years old. Flowered wallpaper lines the walls; posters of 2000s heartthrobs peek out from under the couch; snow globes gather...
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