Katharine Lau

First Dates

September 2004
Rose

So you finally gathered enough courage to ask your crush out for your very first date. And crazily enough, the most wonderful person in the world (at least, according to you), has given hope to all of those romance-filled scenarios already played out in your mind. The only problem is – now what? Sure, your imagination has run wild with …

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Wanna Dance?

September 2004
Susan Rosenbaum with date Scott Leach at the Brigadier Ball circa 1970

Taking it slow

Slow dancing. What once was a multitude of graceful, precise, memorized dance movements has evolved (or, in some people’s opinions, relapsed) into swaying back and forth to the music and barely perceptible feet shuffling, which can ultimately be translated into simply shifting one’s weight from one foot to the other.

Nevertheless, the reasons for slow dancing remain …

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Bellaire High School: A Tale of Survival

August 2004
Katharine Lau

An air of impending doom. A cloud of mystique. A hazy fog looms over it. Like the sirens in Greek mythology that lure sailors to their death, Bellaire High School entices students to four challenging years, all together a hopefully less fatal destiny than that of the sailors.

Upon mentioning that I attend Bellaire High School, I usually receive an …

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