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Are you sick of the pandemic? Does it seem that there is less to be thankful for this holiday season? I know my family’s Thanksgiving travel plans had to be scrapped. So it got me thinking, what am I going...

25 November, 2020
I know it seems a little late for me, considering I just started college, but this fall I have my first real job. In the middle of the pandemic, I am working in retail at a really nice clothing store in my hometown, and I love the clothing I worked with! As much as learn at my job, there are a lot of downsides to working in retail, including, the fear of illness, worries of commission quotas, and the sometimes rude customers.  Something I never thought I would have to deal with is co-worker drama...
01 October, 2020

Independence. Scary? A little. Exhilarating? Very. It can come in all shapes and forms and with a vast array of opportunities. A 12 year old girl walks to school by herself- Independence. A 16 year old boy starts his very...

10 September, 2020
This weekend I was supposed visit my cousin in Texas for her wedding. Given the pandemic, the wedding and our trip was cancelled!!! At first I was too upset to talk about it.  Why couldn't we travel-I was feeling fine?  Then my cousins called and asked us to have a dance party using Zoom instead....
11 June, 2020

What is the big deal, anyway, I thought? Why shouldn’t I vape? Everyone else was doing it, and they were ok. I figured it could make me more popular too…. And the packages were so cute and colorful, and looked like...

06 May, 2020
In the words of the great poet…. Lil Wayne… I got money on my mind. But no, Lil Scrappy I don't got money in the bank and Shawty I really don't care what you drank. And sorry Jay Z but you won't catch me In the Ferrari or Jaguar switching four lanes with the top down screamin out money ain't a thang… Cause money IS a thing … a BIG thing.
09 April, 2020
So It's no secret that I love, love, LOVE to shop. Clothes, hats, jewelry, scarves, bags, belts, pillows, lamps, rugs, bedding, prints, you name it! But I do the majority of my shopping online- why? I HATE changing rooms.
03 March, 2020

The walnut double doors opened with a friendly squeal. The sweet smell of pencil shavings mixed with paint chemicals greeted me as I bounded into the art room, a magical place of creativity and creation. I breathed in a sigh...

03 February, 2020
From the moment that we are born, our parents, teachers, babysitters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, all encouraged us to play games. “There’s nothin’ better than a good ol’ game of Chutes and Ladders to cure a rainy day,” Pops would always say, slouched in his brown leather recliner while nursing a steaming cup of peppermint tea. “Why don’t you girls run along and play with your Barbies while mommy and I have a grown up talk,” Bubbie would often persuade as she stooped over the stove preparing Passover dinner.
01 January, 2020

"We are not a bunch of idiots. If we didn't get something out of the eating disorder- we wouldn't stay with it." Tennie McCarty, author of Shades of Hope, hit the target dead on when she appeared on Dr. Oz....

20 December, 2019
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