Abbie Miller
By Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
Watching all of those Disney movies while growing up can really give a girl misconceptions. I don’t know about anyone else but a guy never tracked me down and asked me to marry him just because I had left my shoe at his house. Nor did I ever stumble upon an enchanted castle in the middle of the woods with a cursed prince waiting inside. Don’t get all upset just because I’m bashing on those movies a bit. I loved them when I was a kid (still do!)… even if they are liars. (more…)
by Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
It’s happened to all of us. We come home from a long day of school or work (sometimes both!), kick off our shoes, settle down on the couch for a night full of mind-numbing television when, suddenly, it’s on. We’re ambushed by THE commercial. You know which one I’m talking about. Clips of starving kids, usually accompanied by a heartbreaking song and the voice of an older man or woman telling you about their suffering and how you can help.
Call me a bad person, but I HATE those commercials. (more…)
By RTF Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
“We’ll no longer be needing you.” When I read that email, my stomach just clenched. Only a few days before I had been informed that I was being let go from my other job due to budget cuts in the school. Now, within a matter of two days, I was completely unemployed. (more…)
By RTF Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
Ever done one of those trust exercises where you fall back and let a friend catch you?
Well I haven’t. It’s not that I don’t trust my friends. I would trust them wholeheartedly with certain things. Such as taking care of my things if I was gone, or handling my money, or my feelings given a certain situation.
However…
By RTF Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
Let’s face it folks, we’re naturally judgmental. (more…)
By Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
My friend and I were looking around a music store one day when suddenly she picked up a CD and shouted excitedly “Oh my gosh! I freakin love her! She’s my role model!”
I looked at the barely clothed woman on the cover and crinkled my nose in disgust. “Why?” (more…)
By RTF Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
Here’s money lying on a desk.
Just sitting there in plain sight!
No one else is around…
It would be so easy.
All I would have to do is walk by.
It’s just a few ones.
Who would notice them missing? (more…)
By RTF Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman
My little brother means the world to me. Ever since we were very little I’ve always felt like I needed to be there to protect him. I remember once after school we were hunkered down in the living room of our trailer, watching a thunderstorm outside the front window. It was raining so hard that we couldn’t even see past the front porch. It was times like that when I would get paranoid about tornadoes (being as young as I was, living smack dab in Tornado Alley, it was kind of hard not to).