Family by Choice
By Audrey Cress I knew when my then-fiancé and I decided to elope, I wouldn’t be as prepared as most women are the night before they say, “I do.” We opened his $70 Amazon suit, and it was the mess of wrinkled fabric you would…
By Audrey Cress I knew when my then-fiancé and I decided to elope, I wouldn’t be as prepared as most women are the night before they say, “I do.” We opened his $70 Amazon suit, and it was the mess of wrinkled fabric you would…
By Audrey Cress Just four flights up a creaking elevator ride and around a carousel of skinny steps, a circular room is echoed with intentional commands spoken over each other, words that pilots and passengers lives rely on. Air traffic controllers will tell you that…
By Audrey Cress Two years ago, Emma Torres, Flagler College senior, started to feel like social media was stealing something from her life experiences. In a social psych class, she and her classmates discussed the illusions of social media and its true impact on their…
By Audrey Helfrich At age 16, Obadiah Hunter’s view of the world was made more colorful when his grandmother gifted him a Bob Ross oil painting set. “Every tube of paint had him and his big afro on it,” Hunter the St. Augustine painter while…
By Audrey Helfrich I never thought that choosing a seat in a classroom would be so nerve-wracking. My brain moved at 100 miles an hour and decided on the safest bet, the back of the classroom. It was the first class of my college English…