Jonah Bowe

The other day I was sitting in school and my teacher handed out a magazine with an article written by Taylor Swift. It was about being bullied. According to her, she was bullied pretty bad in high school, and her tool to get over that was writing songs. Also, the article states...

I've always been the kind of person who'd prefer to be outside seeing new things and places, than sitting inside watching TV, or playing Play Station. The last three years I've been blessed with the opportunity to actually get out of the state. In 2009, my parents and I went to...

So I was watching a TV show a few weeks back, I don't know what the show was, but a lady quoted "high school were some of the best times of my life; I made some of the best memories I have." Something about that quote really set me off into thinking, and how it seems like high...

Growing up in a town like Detroit Lakes definitely has its interesting, but unusual privileges. So does having the editor of the local newspaper as your father.

Being a teenager, I guess I can say I've gotten into my fair share of mischief. I could tell hours of old stories of trouble I got into a few years back, but of all stories I can tell, only one is worthy of writing about. It was the end of the summer.

  I know in the past I've talked about the privileges I had as a little kid. I tried an abundance of different things, but one thing I was really good at at a young age was bowling.

Anyone ever have those little moments in time that stick in your mind, or that you can fall back on when times get tough? I had a friend tell me about how when he was little, his mom would bring him and his little brother down to the river, and they would fish all day long.

Have you experienced what it's like to truly miss something? I guess personally I miss a lot of things, but there's a difference between missing something and truly missing something. Missing something in my opinion is when you reminisce on an occasion or a person, and you'd be...

Being young was such a thrill. I remember waiting the whole year for Christmas to come, and then on Christmas Eve, I'd get about three hours of sleep. I'd wake up and go running downstairs to my stocking, and I'd sit in the living room until the sun came up and it was time to open...

Dec. 21, 2012 -- rumor is the world's gonna end on this date. It's not the first doomsday prediction (most recent was April 21, 2011, which of course turned out to be false), but I have to say it's probably got the most publicity since the new millennium. I was 12 years old when...

It's crazy how things can change so much, but yet stay the same. My life has been changing so much I can hardly keep track of it, but there is always those basic necessities that don't change, those little things that are the same year after year. Thanksgiving has always been one...

  Elementary school for me was different than most people I've talked to. For some reason I did more and tried a greater variety of activities at a young age. When I look back, I can remember something  about each grade at Rossman Elementary that's as vivid as yesterday. I still...

Growing up, my dad has always done the best to make sure I had the opportunity to try multiple things that interested me. Through elementary school alone I was a three-time state (tournament) participant, I played a season of football, soccer, wrestling (which were experiments)...

In life everyone makes mistakes, it's a proven fact. Some are little mistakes, like forgetting to take out the garbage, or losing something. But some mistakes stick with you throughout your lifetime. Two years ago today (on Sept. 27), I made one of the biggest mistakes thus far....

There's always the time of year when summer officially comes to an end and the weather gets colder, school and activities start, and the leaves fall off the trees. In my case, as a little kid, the one thing I always looked forward to was the Detroit Lakes fall musical. The first...