The Heights

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

Lucia Hernandez • April 8, 2025

When my parents reminisce over moments long, long ago, they always mention how they feel it had happened just the day before. I’d always assumed that was a hyperbole. But now, I think back to one of the final days of 10th grade, and it truly feels like yesterday.

My Life in Playlists

Jenny Hotchkiss • April 1, 2025

My playlists are time capsules. Each one, chronologically sorted, takes me back to a specific moment in my life. Every song brings a flood of emotions and memories—an almost indescribable feeling of nostalgia mixed with deja vu. When I miss a person, place, or time of my life, all I have to do is find that one corresponding playlist and press play.

Balancing Tradition and Change in Otis

Jenny Hotchkiss • February 11, 2025

My best childhood memories are a patchwork of my time spent in Otis Wood Lands, a small community exploding with my family’s history. Over forty years ago, my grandfather and his brother each bought small cabins in Otis, a tiny town in rural Massachusetts.

Sorry BC, Your Vinyl Collection Doesn’t Make You Cool

Tommy Roche • October 6, 2024

In the modern, superficial, forever-online world that always wants to sell you something, nostalgic tech is a rare breed: it is offline, it is permanent, and it is plain. Nostalgic devices are not simply reliable machines or shiny baubles in the consumer rat race.

Soap, Songs, and Rollercoasters: The Power of Associative Memory

Makayla Hickey • February 28, 2023

Every single day we create new memories. And in doing so, we subconsciously intertwine specific experiences with our surroundings.

Homecoming and Homesickness

Grace Christenson • January 27, 2022

Last August, exactly two years after my parents moved to Texas, my boyfriend, Jack, held my hand while I wept outside of my childhood home and wiped snot on my sleeve. I grew up in a small colonial...