Death and American Society- Why Do We Fear It?

When did death become something for Americans to dread every day of their lives?

The Ghosts of DeLand

As a Stetson student who lives on campus, I have experienced a couple of creepy things. A couple of months ago, I had come…

COOKKK

Towering above all the other gravestones, the imposing piece of gray rock easily catches the eye of anyone who might be visiting Oakdale Cemetery…

Of Cats and Bibliophiles

Your portal is of fantasy and science-fiction movies, my portal is of an old storefront. It is living and breathing, heaving beneath the hot sun, and has seen enough stories and epics of everyday humankind set in glory on the sidewalk as it holds within its four walls. This old…

Forbidden Shopping

I am uncomfortable. Not because I have never been to a sex shop, but because this time I am actively attempting to find the…

The Place where Compassion and Politics Meet

I came to Kevin Winchell’s office to tell him this:

Cheap Bouclé Wanted

Cover Photo by Laura Candeletta-Burklin

There are few places that lure these kind of improbable groupings of people. Perhaps parallels are sometimes public schools and hospitals; the well-heeled and the strapped reading from identical textbooks, receiving the same medical…