Pizza. Ravioli. Peanut butter cup blizzards. Sounds good, right? Imagine not eating them for four years. That was me-until a month ago.When I was in my mid-teens, I decided that I had enough with meat and was going to stop eating it cold turkey, no pun intended. I remember walking into the kitchen and announcing my newfound lifestyle to my mother."Mom, I'm a vegetarian now," I said. "OK ... we should get some cookbooks," she rep...

I moved at the end of last month, and only when I was boxing everything up did I realize how much stuff I had-in addition to my memorabilia-that I don't even use. My boyfriend remarked as he was helping me pack that I have too much stuff.  I knew he was right.I was taught from a young age to store away things that held emotional weight. My kindergarten art projects, my third-grade account of visiting the Hershey factory and...

In a town far away from the glitz of Hollywood, 249 miles from the bright lights of Broadway, a high school is getting its 15 minutes of fame.Barnstable High School in Cape Cod, Mass., is shooting for...

Sometimes I just want to scream. At what, I don't know. But it would certainly feel good to let it all out.When I was in high school, I played a little bit of rock ‘n' roll music, but it wasn't until I was 19 years old that I found what I truly love about playing music and started a band with two of my friends.Our trio,  A Mind Called Treason, consisted of the basic rock band instruments: guitar, drums and bass, which I pl...