Today I went to the redwood tree,  “I’ve shaken hands with death multiple times,” sophomore Vedanshi Prasad said.  greeted by the brush of its leaves, welcomed in its embrace.  In January...

While many of my kindergarten classmates went to lunch ecstatic and hungry, I went to lunch every day on a mission: to make a friend. My dad always advised me to make friends by following the other kids...

After school, I would lean my head against our dinner table — our house too empty, too quiet. With my father gone for business trips and my mother busy writing countless documents for work, their absence...