Best of the Blogs

I began my day with hope for a non-stressful second semester, but this hope was short-lived. My mom made me pick up a Clicklist order from Kroger before I took my sister to her tennis practice. I usually go by FPD on my way to school and turn down Tucker and cross its bridge. Although, this won't last much longer. But today, the sun was especially bright at 4:15 when I was stopped at the yield sign...

March 12 Thursday  Everywhere is closing, and it kind of feels like the world is ending. I can’t go to Johns Hopkins over the spring break anymore because it closed. My sister is doing online classes because GA tech closed. The NBA is postponing its season. The president is banning travel to the US. There are so many measures to stop coronavirus from spreading, and I feel like it is all a bit ex...

January 14th - Last night, I was able to facetime my sister after finishing some of my homework. Her and one of her friends were painting a cooler for her friend’s boyfriend’s social in Nola this upcoming weekend. It was decked out in Mardi Gras beads and designs that made that once white cooler was decked out in vibrant colors. Besides seeing their project, it was nice to talking to my sister an...

My brother started his own digital marketing company a couple of years ago. He dropped out of college when it started to blow up and moved to Milledgeville for a little while. He then moved back home and then to Greenville, South Carolina. He stayed in Greenville for a while and then moved back to Macon because he had a lot more business in Macon. His office was under Piedmont Brewery with...

On Saturday night, I went to the Homecoming dance at Idle Hour Country Club Although the dance felt like a middle school dance it was still pretty fun. Before the dance, I went to my friends house and our dates met us there for pictures before we left for dinner. My date tore his ACL the night before in the football game so I ended up driving us. AJ and Hailey drove in another car and we met...

We went duck hunting and quail hunting this weekend. Saturday we went quail hunting in Twin City Ga. I went to beaver creek plantation and we killed 85 quail. The next morning we got back and went duck hunting on 83 north. We killed a bunch of ducks. It was a lot of fun and I am ready for Duck season to come back.  

A mobster isn't the typical costume one would expect to see on character day. People will be dressed as Dwight Schrute from "The Office" and Mike Wasowski from "Monsters Inc." One of my favorite TV shows is "The Sopranos." I'm dressing as the protagonist, Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mobster staging as a waste manager. But Tony Soprano isn’t Tony Soprano without his cigar. I figured Stratford...

Stratford needs a place for high school students to be allowed to go during Study Hall, because the study hall room does not smell the best when it is warm outside and is very muggy. The library is an option but we have to be quiet there, and some days I do not have anything to do in Study hall to being allowed to talk to friends would be nice Depending on the teacher, they may not let you leave...

Music Midtown day 2 was a success. It was somehow simultaneously the best and worst day of the weekend  Day 2 had really great artists, such as Walk The Moon, Billie Eilish, and Travis Scott. At the same time, it was a bad day because it was insanely hot. We were standing and sitting outside for 10 hours straight. I could almost feel my face melting off. Also, Travis Scott was probably one of the...

So on my birthday I got my palm read by a fortune teller at Haunted Montrose. I went into it knowing it was going to be completely made up and bogus. I sat down with her but something weird happened. I didn’t tell her anything at all about my life, but somehow she knew what was going on. Recently I had gotten into an argument with a friend and she said she saw that in my palm. She knew the ex...

When December 18th finally came I was so excited. We woke up early that morning to leave and we were in New York by 10 am. This trip we did get to see a broadway musical. We had already bought our tickets to Mean Girls. but the musical was 100 times better. We went back to Madame Tussauds and it was still amazing. We went and saw the Rockets which was my favorite part of the who...

Abby got into Georgia Tech!! We were all so excited as Abby and Libby would both be going to college together for the first semester. After that semester, Libby will be graduating and Abby will just be starting her long journey at tech. Soon, I'll hopefully join Abby in Atlanta in two years but you never know what the future has to hold. Go jackets!!!!   When Libby was in high school, Wendy's alway...

I can not wait for summer 2020 at the lake. It is so much fun. My family and I go out on the boat almost every Sunday. We wakeboard, surf, and tube all day long. It is really fun when we bring new people who have never participated in water sports before to the lake. They are usually pretty good at it. Please note my use of the word usually, as we have had some people have some pretty fu...

Scooter, my border collie, is very high energy. Whenever I come home, he wags and tail and jumps all over me in excitement. He loves to play and do tricks for treats. He knows how to sit, shake, lay, and play dead. He has been going to training to better his skills. Scooter loves meeting new people and dogs. His herding nature always kicks in, and he loves to have everyone in one place. Scooter...

On Saturday night, I watched the football game at Vanderbilt vs. Georgia. Georgia started with the ball and very quickly scored. It did not take long for them to score, and the game kept on with Georgia scoring many times and Vanderbilt scoring only once to make the ending score of the game 30-6. This was the first game of the season and I am excited that football season is back. Geo...

I got to see one of my favorite artists perform!! The concert was in Atlanta at Buckhead Theatre. I went with my mom and met up with my best friend Nellie. She lives in Atlanta. We also got to meet a lot of other people while at the concert that were really sweet. One of my favorite people I met there was named Kirstin she was super funny. Julia Micheals was the artist we were seeing. ...

My long weekend was great. I went on a church retreat with Ingleside Baptist Church. We went to Okoee Ridge, Tennessee. The camp was on top of a mountain. There was a lot of fun stuff to do. We played paintball, went on zip lines, and played basketball. A lot of my friends went on the trip. I also met many new friends. We stopped at the Varsity to eat on the way home. It was an unforgettable ...

Today has been a good Monday because Thanksgiving break was so much fun. I stayed in town for almost all of it. We fished for almost 2 hours and we caught 33 fish. We did my dad’s side of the family Wednesday and Thursday for Thanksgiving and then Friday my mom and dad and I went to Metter, Georgia. My grandma, Aine, and cousin, Lanier, were also there. On Saturday, my grandma and I went fishing....

On Saturday, I invited a bunch of friends over for my eighteenth birthday party. We did a “Matt’s Macon Faves Scavenger Hunt!” It was a picture scavenger hunt around town of all my favorite places, such as Macon Little Theatre, Jim Shaw's, and Kroger! We split up into teams of four and had 2 hours to go do as many tasks as possible to rack up points. The tasks included: Whole team wearing ...

October 17 I was on the beach enjoying the beautiful sunset when a thought appeared in my head. I thought, “How cool would it be to take a picture of the sunset right now?” So, I took out my phone, looked at my surroundings, and tried to think of a different angle to snap a shot. I decided to get on my knees and take a picture at the angle of my flip flops. Just at the right time, a bi...

I do not really believe in Valentine's Day or celebrate it entirely. Personally, I think the whole holiday is cheesy and overrated. Although, I do like the heart chicken biscuits at chick-fil-a and the heart-shaped tray of chicken minis and all the candy is, of course, nice, but the holiday is over-hyped. I feel like it almost solely is to fill the blank and dry gap of nothingness in February be...

"Today is the day of the big game. I am so nervous but so excited. I am nervous in a very prepared way. I have watched the film and know what to do. Hopefully, we win and get to move onto the region championship this Saturday." Looking back at this blog is very cool for me. Looking back, now, my team and I have won 5 region championships in a row!

“My favorite Thanksgiving food by far is mac and cheese. I will say I do have a strong love for kraft mac and cheese but when my mom makes her homemade mac and cheese, nothing in the world can beat it! ”  “Everyone ‘loves’ the time change this time of year, because you gain an hour of sleep. Here is an unpopular opinion, I hate the time change. I not only hate that my sleep schedul...

A tradition from Camp Greystone is to celebrate Wildlife Wednesday. Every Wednesday, we wear animal-themed shirts to celebrate wildlife. The shirts usually have a huge animal face on them. The counselors at camp try to incorporate more nature-themed activities on Wednesdays. I try to continue this tradition at home by spending some time outside or something of that nature. It is very reward...

Before winter break started, I bought tickets for the Stadium Tour to go with my mom where Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison, and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts will perform. For this tour, the iconic rock bands will perform at the Suntrust Park in Atlanta on August 9. These bands are recognized worldwide and inspired many other bands, which explains why the majority of tickets of the tour so...

Med Walk Jack Medlin is known for many things ranging from his height to his prowess on the basketball court. But, there is one feature of this that makes him even more unique than most. His pigeon-toed gait. He walks with his feet pointed inward forming what we have named the "Med Walk". This name for his walk became popular after the song "Plug Walk" by Rich the Kid came out. He has embraced th...

Today, Clarke Jones and I needed a picture for our Gazebo column, so we set out on a mission for the perfect picture. Emily Hutchinson, as our photographer, set out with us. We took some planned, braces free, pictures on the benches outside of the broadcast room. Then, after getting some great shots, we decided that we might as well take some candid photos as well. Clarke and I hung from the...

During the summer, my absolute favorite place on Earth is Lake Oconee. There is so much to do, but my favorite activity is, by far, a nice ride on the tube. To start off the summer, a few of us Stratford girls headed up for some lake livin', and by the end of the trip, we fit five people on one small tube! I felt very safe in the middle of the tube as Caroline Crick was hanging on for dear life...

After a long two months, I finished drivers-ed. Drivers-ed began in August, and we first started with a workbook. Every day we sat there and listened to the teacher or one of our peers read aloud. It was not fun, to say the least. Anna Caroline and I never actually listened, instead we just sat there and listened to music. If we didn’t listen to music, I was doodling in the workbook paying no...

Today is my favorite them of spirit week. I went all out. It's decade day! I knew I wanted to dress in 70's attire, so I planned to dress like Jackie from that 70's show. But, the puffer vest of my mom's that I wanted to wear had real fur on it. She did not want to risk me loosing that. So, I still kind of dressed like Jackie. I wore combat boots from DSW, bell bottoms from free people, a red turtle...

Last Friday, I donated my blood on my birthday. I thought that was a meaningful and best birthday gift ever. Also, I turned twenty years old, and I became a real adult. I was excited, but I was also depressed because I would not be a teenager anymore, and I have taken more responsibility. At night, my host mom and Queena celebrated my birthday. That was an unforgettable night, and also that...