It’s been more than five months since we were locked inside our homes with just a TV, a few house plants and maybe, if you were lucky, a roll of toilet paper. The lush and unlimited landscape we once inhabited shrank to a few square feet. Alone we grew, we blossomed, we set our roots an...

It’s been more than five months since we were locked inside our homes with just a TV, a few house plants and maybe, i...

To some, the sound of garlic and oil sizzling reminds them of family. For others, it’s the texture of spring roll wrappers, the smell of fried food or an image of the family’s matriarch cooking dinner. Regardless of background, families have rich culinary traditions that are shared ge...

To some, the sound of garlic and oil sizzling reminds them of family. For others, it’s the texture of spring roll wra...

In a room full of people, you feel like a ghost. The people around you do no good in comforting you. A silent ailment, loneliness only makes itself known by a twist in your gut or a lump in your throat. It has become one of the top mental health issues, afflicting “the world’s loneli...

In a room full of people, you feel like a ghost. The people around you do no good in comforting you. A silent ailment,...

Dear Distraction community,  I’m writing to you because we are in a time of social revolution. There is a continuing trend in just about every situation of social change that has occurred thus far. There is a time when the dam breaks, and the oppressed are tired of not g...

Dear Distraction community,  I’m writing to you because we are in a time of social revolution. There is a c...

When you go to school in paradise, it’s easy to fall into the same old habits: going to the same beaches, the same bars with the same cute bartenders who wink at you when you order the same cocktails you’ve been drinking for the past two years. Students could very easily take Miami fo...

When you go to school in paradise, it’s easy to fall into the same old habits: going to the same beaches, the same ba...