Good Southern Girl writes: I must be missing something, Advice Guru. I have the heart of a good Southern girl and love to host dinner parties. I happily host all…
Pokemon Go and where we go from here
By now we have lived long enough with Pokemon Go—the augmented-reality mobile game enabling users to catch and battle Pokemon in real time from the physical environment—to have some perspective…
Rent control is bad, stop asking for it
Rent control is blocked by law in Oregon and has been since 1985. More and more Oregonians are clamoring for a repeal of the ban as rent prices rise in…
Skinny, Bookish & Broken-hearted
Broken-Hearted Bookworm writes: My stepdad was recently clearing out his book collection and offered me a book I’d given him as a gift some odd years earlier. I had been…
Remove the stigma
Mental illness is not a rare thing: Almost one in every five adults in the U.S. experiences mental illness in a given year. Still, society often acts as if mental…
The chill future of Netflix
Netflix is beautiful. If you analyze it and dive down deep enough, this becomes the one thing that ties us all together—everyone has a Netflix account. (If you don’t, you…
Reflection from a graduate
There is a very brief amount of time – differing from one person to another – before a remembrance of the past becomes a commentary on the present. My memory…
Reflection from a graduate
At the end of August I will be graduating with a master’s degree in book publishing. But I came to PSU with an associate’s degree and way too many credits…
The Koreas are acting like children
What in the world is North Korea up to now? So much propaganda has been distributed that actual nuclear war is being threatened. On Jan. 6, North Korea claimed to…