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Month: January 2016

I’m not America’s Sweetheart, and I’m ok with it… ?>

I’m not America’s Sweetheart, and I’m ok with it…

Elle King America’s Sweetheart Every once in awhile, you hear a song and you know it’s your song. The song that represents who you are and how you feel. I found one of those songs. Elle King’s “America’s Sweetheart” is that song for me. To give you some background, I have never been one of those people who needs to be the center of attention or surrounded by others. I have never felt an overwhelming need to be popular. I…

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failing our kids… ?>

failing our kids…

For the past few weeks an assignment turned in by one of my seniors has been on my mind. A senior who was taking my one-semester journalism class wrote a column about being forced into adulthood. She was graduating midterm and had been looking for an apartment, trying to secure insurance, finish her FAFSA, apply to colleges and pay income tax. She wrote that at no time in her high school career did a class or a teacher ever explain…

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2015 report card….D ?>

2015 report card….D

At the end of the year, social media becomes inundated with posts lamenting the year’s end and eagerly predicting that the upcoming year will be the best one yet. Avoiding all forms of introspection, I made the cursory general facebook post about hoping 2016 will be better. Now that I have had time to really (over)think 2015, I realize it was a D year. I give it a D because 2015 was truly disappointing. While, it started out like any…

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