I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.

Kids are mostly very resilient.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.