'Hi, my name is Betsy Tampke, and I'm seventeen years old.'Â
'Hi Betsy'Â
I stare down at my hands, unwilling to make eye contact with those around me.
The group leader places his hand on...
Abercrombie Kids recently released their summer line which included padded swimsuits for seven to eight year old girls. Yes, you read correctly. PADDED SWIMSUITS FOR SEVEN TO EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRLS. And...
I've listened to you mimic her. Make fun of her mannerisms and sayings. Comment on her clothing. Harp on her partying style. And I've kept my mouth shut. I've never said anything in response. But when...
It's finally starting to feel like spring throughout the St. Teresa's campus.  No more long, winter mornings or auction sweatpants until next year (at least, for all you non-seniors out there)....
When our journey began, there were five members in my wolf pack. By the end of our stay in Detroit, there were 27 of us, all heading to the beaches of Cancun.
It all began on our flight at Kansas...
Dear Rebecca Black lovers,
Do yourself and everyone around you a favor and stop. Stop listening to Rebecca Black on Groove Shark, watching her video on YouTube, or mimicking her disastrous song....
Dear boyfriends,
Who would have guessed that asking for each others' cell phone numbers was going to be the biggest mistake we ever made?
As soon as we started texting, we thought we just "clicked."...
We've all been that girl in the middle of class when everything is so painfully silent that you can hear the clock tick. You're holding it in, thinking to yourself, "Oh no, please don't. Please don't,"...
This time last year my Friday and Saturday nights consisted of getting home from school, getting ready and going out with my friends. Oh how things have changed in a little over a year. Now, most of my...
I'm just going to put it out there that this construction is not okay with me.
Apparently it's not bad enough that the future chapel design is too intrusive, too modern and just too ugly...
Fellow seniors, school's out for...spring break. Almost. Many of you are venturing to the notorious Playa del Carmen, Mexico'â€home of all-night parties, tiny swim suits on too-tan bodies, hundreds...
I think some assume (hope) that along with the addition of the Chapel of St. Joseph, we STA students would all magically transform into reverent Catholic school girls.
False.
In reality, despite...
