So Ricky Albus is leaving. Packing up. Moving on. When Martin High School bid adieu to the school year last month, so did Albus, walking out with no intentions of...

The first time I rode a roller coaster, around age 10, at a modest amusement park just outside Chicago, the tracks were, at best, five feet off the ground, it...

Next time you catch a minute or two, fire up YouTube, where The Freebie Guy reigns as a sort of energizer bunny of bargains, a crafty connoisseur of clearances, a...

Grace Whetstone likes to tell this story of a mother whose baseball-playing son hits a little blooper that scoots gingerly into the infield. As frantic fielders scramble for it, she’s...

(TW: self-harm)   Chelsea was 13 when she started cutting, using the sharp edge of the tab of a soda can. She would graduate to scissors and then a razor,...

A few evenings ago on a Fort Worth street corner a scrawny guy with reddish hair and a crooked grin was rapidly stroking a guitar – not humming, not singing,...

Zack Riley and Kolby Kelly didn’t know each other while band students at Lamar High School but knew of one another. Riley was the young, up-and-coming French Horn guy and...

When the coronavirus pandemic forced us into hiding, school activities darted for cover as well. No sports, no band, no Key Club. And no rabbit showings. That news nearly wrecked...

Lisa Thompson has a tendency to refer to her dance studio as “small,” which, relatively speaking, might be an accurate description, though when you dig into its 35-year existence, little...

Vivian Nguyen is 15 but sounds far north of 25. Claims to be a sophomore at Martin High School, though that’s hard to fathom, too. Conversing with her is a...