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It is often I remind people that my parents were teenagers. I don’t do it for attention or as an excuse. I do it as an explanation for my complexities; for why certain people aren’t in my life or why I never ask for help or why I have trouble letting anyone get too close….
He stands tall, confident, solid. People notice. Thin with chiseled edges. The sun beams. He sparkles. They squint at the brightness that reflects his strength. A girl walks along the sidewalk beside her mother. She picks up a rock and for a minute thinks about putting it in her pocket. Instead, she throws it. It…
Whether you believe that God created man or that man evolved from a T-rex, humans are changing, growing and transforming into a new version of themselves all the time. It’s what we do. Physically, we mature, we age, we wrinkle, we sag. We take on new styles over the years. Mentally, we develop and deepen…
It was the first day of fourth grade following my ninth move in just as many years alive. Thankfully, this time I wasn’t the only new girl in town, there was one other, and as luck would have it, she also happened to be in my same grade. All of my new kid nerves melted…
Recently, a TikTok filter that makes you look like your teenage self went viral. It left many users in tears as they looked back at a younger image of themself and their memories, good, bad and otherwise, instantly flooded back. I’m not going to lie, I did check the filter out. Although I didn’t end…
On January 11, 1984, I was born out of wedlock to two irresponsible teenagers. I don’t know much about my Father because he was absent for most of my life. Out of legal obligation and responsibility he was forced to see me for a couple of summers throughout the earlier part of my childhood. Despite…
When we hear the names Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe, we can probably all agree that this is the most iconic friend group in American pop culture. After all, they were characters on a show entitled “Friends”. Two were siblings, two were high school friends, two were college friends and a few were…
With Christmas behind us, most of us spend the week leading up to the new year eating leftovers, returning presents that didn’t work out and spending gift cards at the mall. The closer we get, the more we start to consider the challenges and triumphs from the past year and the hopes and dreams we…
The holidays are upon us and the National Retail Federation’s forecast anticipates that holiday sales will grow between 6% and 8% over 2021 to between $942.6 billion and $960.4 billion in gift exchanging. It’s proven that people prefer to give gifts than to receive them. According to a survey conducted by OnePoll on behalf of…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that there is only so long you can talk about something before you just have to take action. This is my action amplified. So, hello and welcome! A bit about me: I am a girly girl but I can hang with I the guys. I am a woman but I have the imagination…