As he drove through the streets of Washington,  D.C., one morning with the convertible top down, windows up and music blaring, someone yelled to the driver, "you sure know how to embrace a sunny morning." This took place in the middle of February. D.C. is south of Pittsburgh, but it is still quite cold. Hence, with the top down, my dad (the young-at-heart driver) was in his leather bomber's hat, ear flaps down, gloves on, with the heat blasting.

If you put my  wallet on a scale, it would probably weigh a little more than a pound. It's not because I carry an insanely large wallet; it's because of all of the loose change in my coin pouch.

Candy store fire elicits nostalgia for 'Burgh staples

‘You might want to sit down … Sarris Candy caught on fire this morning." This was the text message I woke up to the morning of Feb. 3. While the news was not so traumatic that I needed to take a seat, it did rattle me.

Students choose between death, life without progress

"Would you rather live with what you now have, or would you rather die on the spot if you weren't permitted to acquire anything greater?" Socrates asks Alcibaides this question in one of Plato's famous dialogues, the Alcibiades.

When I started my internship, I expected new challenges and learning opportunities. I didn't expect one of those challenges to be avoiding a bullying parrot.

On Tuesday, in an attempt to be a good student and graduate assistant, I left my apartment one full hour before I was scheduled to be at work, even though it only takes me 10 minutes or less to get to campus. I thought, "hey, I'll get in early and get some extra work done." Apparently, I thought wrong. Until I pulled onto campus that morning, I had been having a great day