The arts through a high school view

Phoebe Bridgers singing Waiting Room live Phoebe Bridgers’ “Waiting Room” feels like reading someone’s diary through their guitar strings, beautiful, raw, and honest. The metaphors and emotional weight breathe maturity, but the content of the song shows Bridger’s true naivety, given that she wrote the song at 16 years old.  One of the most striking lines is: “If you were a teacher, I would fail your class / Take it over and over ’til you noticed me.” This feels like someone

Cover of Summer Sisters Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters is deeper than a typical coming-of-age novel; it’s a fun and thrilling, and sometimes unsettling representation and reminder of how growth can change you, your relationships, and your values. The novel follows friends Victoria “Vix” Leonard and Caitlin Somers over 18 influential summers, from the start of their friendship at age 12 to their 30th birthdays. Despite their contrasting backgrounds and personalities, the two forg

Tom and Summer (500 Days of Summer) When people talk about 500 Days of Summer, the conversation almost always circles back to Tom’s heartbreak. He loved her, she left him, and suddenly Summer Finn is framed as the villain—the cold, detached girl who refused to give the hopeless romantic the ending he thought he deserved. However, when I first watched the movie, I had a different take: Summer was not the bad guy. Summer was honest, Summer was passionate, and Summer knew what

My Poem!! A little different for the post this week! I thought I’d share a poem I wrote (In 7th-grade ELA class). This poem is a diptych...