Student Submissions

The California Red-legged Frog

by Gwyneth Grivich If you have gone hiking in California near ponds, streams, or wetlands, you may have run into the California red-legged frog (Rana...

Crabby Beach

By Aquilla Cloyd When I got to my new home, I was excited because  all my brothers and sisters were invited.  We greeted each other with the...

What do you do when you don’t feel loved?

By Melany Menezes What do you do when you don’t feel loved? Do you search for it? Looking in all the wrong places Never learning to love yourself...

Breaking the Silence: The Rising Tide of Mental Health in Monterey County Nicolle Leon & Steven Machek, PhD, CSCS

In light of our evolving attitudes towards mental health, May arrives as an opportune moment to deepen our commitment to awareness, advocacy, and action....

I’ll Love Myself.

Poem submitted by Micah Rodriguez The tears burn holes in my clothes. Stains me with whatevers. I cry for long,Too long to cry. Treads my winds,How free am...

Till Thursday.

Poem submitted by Micah Rodriguez Weightlessly I vision youWith red faces of passionPretty is youIslands of cozy liquorDrowns my worries, sinks my fearsI think of...