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Stop The Squeal

The truth behind exclamation point censorship. — For far too long, exclamation points have gotten a bad rap from so-called “writing experts,” “grammar police,” “punctuation snobs,” and “editors”. “DON’T USE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!” They scream, ironically using multiple exclamation points, as well as caps lock, to make their “point.” …

Humor

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Stop The Squeal
Stop The Squeal
Humor

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Mar 24

TikTok on the Chopping Block

Congress has started an attack on our freedom of speech. — The dog and pony show Congress put on yesterday was not only an embarrassment to Americans, but a display of a corrupt Congress that’s for sale to the highest bidder. That highest bidder of the moment appears to be Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg, Meta CEO and greedy billionaire, is determined to…

Freedom Of Speech

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TikTok on the Chopping Block
TikTok on the Chopping Block
Freedom Of Speech

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May 17, 2022

Maids & Cholas — SNL Celebrates Latin Heritage Month

Tired, Racist Tropes are for Tired, Racist Dopes — Late this past Saturday night, I was curled up on the couch with my sleeping cats and snoring husband (he reluctantly approved this characterization), scrolling social media on my phone. With Saturday Night Live on in the background, I was only half paying attention when I heard “…reporting live from…

Latinos

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Maids & Cholas — SNL Celebrates Latin Heritage Month
Maids & Cholas — SNL Celebrates Latin Heritage Month
Latinos

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Aug 23, 2021

Losing Mom

And the Cost of Grief — “People come, people go, life goes on.” When I was 19, my boyfriend went into nursing. Even though we broke up, we still talked on the phone now and then. After he graduated nursing school, I asked him how his new job was going. He described caring for patients who’d…

Mwc Death

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Losing Mom
Losing Mom
Mwc Death

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Nov 7, 2020

All That Glitters

She stared at the blonde-haired bully, wondering what she’d done to warrant being treated like this. The moonlight that trickled in through the doorway caught on a rhinestone-covered barrette the girl had in her hair, and Reaina stared as it sparkled. …

Fiction

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All That Glitters
All That Glitters
Fiction

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Mar 18, 2020

Together Alone

A Coronavirus Quarantine Fiction Experiment A kid sat alone on the sidewalk; his straight blonde hair, mussed and dirty, sticking straight up in places. He was wearing a diaper and eating a pudding cup with his fingers. He looked too old to be wearing a diaper. I crossed the street…

Fiction

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Together Alone
Together Alone
Fiction

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Mar 18, 2020

Coronavirus Quarantine: A Writing Series Challenge

Coronavirus, the quarantine, and all of the uncertainty that comes along with this unprecedented global viral threat brings so much fear and anxiety. No one knows what to expect, how long this will go on or what tomorrow brings. Rather than succumb to fear, we need to reach out and…

Fiction

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Coronavirus Quarantine: A Writing Series Challenge
Coronavirus Quarantine: A Writing Series Challenge
Fiction

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Oct 21, 2019

Tea Party with a Ghost

A writing prompt from Tim Clare’s Couch to 80k Writing Bootcamp inspired this story. The prompt was: Breach the veils between worlds. Someone is waiting to speak with you. Tune in to this person’s appearance. Approach them and see what they want. Figerella, she called herself. She had a light…

Short Story

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Tea Party with a Ghost
Tea Party with a Ghost
Short Story

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Aug 9, 2019

Quack Science: The Problem with Marianne Williamson

In case you haven’t heard, in recent interviews presidential candidate and self-help guru Marianne Williamson has been busy spreading misinformation about mental illness and its treatment. Specifically, she downplays the severity of clinical depression. Americans Living With Clinical Depression Clinical Depression can be simply and briefly summarized as a chemical imbalance in the brain, with…

Mental Health

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Quack Science: The Problem with Marianne Williamson
Quack Science: The Problem with Marianne Williamson
Mental Health

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Jul 29, 2019

A Review of the Habitica App

I’ve been using Habitica since 2016. At the time I joined, I was struggling to reincorporate structure into my daily routine. I wanted to be more productive and spend less time on distraction behaviors like gaming, television and social media.

Gaming

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A Review of the Habitica App
A Review of the Habitica App
Gaming

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