A Farewell to WSU

The last few days I’ve spent on campus have been strange. People have been stopping me in the halls and on the streets to say “Don’t worry, we’ll stay in touch!” or “I’m really gonna miss you when you go!” I respond in kind and tell them my plans, but all the while...

National Being Yourself Day

I feel like it’s a fairly universal truth in our culture that at some point in our youth someone told us to “just be yourself!” While it’s a fabulous notion in theory, it’s basically meaningless in execution. I’ve always known a few basic facts about myself: I’m sorta...

Praise for Produce Peddlers

At the beginning of the semester I, like many WSU students, relocated to a new apartment and got settled in a slightly different part of town. Since then, I’ve discovered new neighbors, new shortcuts to campus and a new set of Winona locations that I like to visit...