General Topics
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Before and After Blog Awards
I’m learning more and more about the blogosphere. One thing I recently learned more about is Blog Awards. My opinion about them is split into two categories: Before I knew what Blog Awards were and After I knew what blog awards were. Before: Ah, those lovely things hanging on the sides of everyone’s blog. If… Continue reading
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Dear Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton…
You are not Martin Luther King. Just saying. Continue reading
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Commonly Asked Questions about Twins
Yea, you guessed it, I’m a twin. The following questions have followed me around my whole life, and on behalf of twins everywhere, I present the following commonly, sometimes annoyingly, asked questions: “Yall twins?” We are obviously twins. But I must say I’m guilty of this myself. Though being a twin, when I see other… Continue reading
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Comfortable on the Floor
Are you comfortable on the floor? Or have you forgotten that we create the doors that we walk through? Continue reading
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Uncommon Core
Yea, 2 + 2 used to equal 4. But thanks to uncommon core, it can equal 5 if that will make the children feel better. What I don’t understand though is all the drawing stuff. Like, if there’s a math problem of: 9 + 7 =? why does the student have to draw circles to… Continue reading
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The Beautiful Sky
Have you ever walked outside at dusk and noticed all the colors in the sky? The way the moon just bleeds crimson bright; splashes of daylight prophesying hints of yellow like screaming oracles, and burnt orange autumns that cements itself inside the belly of the sky. The way that birds defy the darkness to find… Continue reading
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Being “Grown”
I was in the Dollar Store today and the cashier was an excited 21 year old. “I’m grown“, she boasted. “I pay my own bills and don’t need for nothing.” That sparked a thought: Don’t be in such a hurry to talk about how “grown” you are because there’s a difference between “being grown” and… Continue reading
