Category: Current Events
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Marie Claire and Corn Row Gate
Marie Claire retweeted a photo of Kendall Jenner who was showcasing her new hair style that happened to feature cornrows in a half braided side style. Marie Claire Retweeted the photo and accompanied it with “Kendall Jenner takes bold braids to a new epic level:”. If you missed it, you can catch up here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/02/marie-claire-kendall-jenner-cornrows-tweet_n_5078924.html…
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Today was a good day.
Particularly so because I started to feel human in juxtaposition with the zombie like feeling that plagued my body due to the cold I had. I’m not sure if it is a cold or the flu, I just know that it won and it will continue to win because almost everyone I know is sick…
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E-Book Resources
Since I gave in to the almighty E-book I’ve been looking for ways to save money on books. I was sad to lose the idea of free borrows until my Library started offering E-books and I have a few resources to share. E-books in general are usually a sliver cheaper so it does help you…
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Humanizing Man-Hood – Vin Diesel’s cover of Stay
I woke up to something that really warmed my heart. Mr. Diesel plays one of my favorite characters; Riddick. This video is the one in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5t-CmCwhZo My first reaction? I was trying to harmonize with him, he needed some back up. He was on pitch (when he was singing in the right octave) and seemed…
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Writing through the Blues
So if you’re on twitter you know the phrase “tweet through it”; that kind of sums up what I’m trying to do with this blog. I have this problem with consistency when the negative feelings about myself and my writing creep in. 2013 was such a tough year for my family and I and I…
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Daily Prompt: Teaching
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/daily-prompt-teaching/ I’ve had a lot of great influences in my life that have taught me a varied set of lessons, all apt and necessary whether or not I knew it at the time…well…*shrug* I didn’t want to go into another long drawn out post about great people that influence me. I have touched on a…
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Why I’m not worried or sad about Justin Beiber
Let me preface this with linking to my previous posts about Chris Brown. You can find it here: First Post: https://angirach.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/rihanna-chris-brown-and-fame/ Second Post: https://angirach.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/why-im-finally-mad-at-chris-brown/ Okay; I try not to write about pop culture here too much because I’m not a therapist or psychologist and while my opinion seems like it’s based on fact; it’s not. All we…
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Daily Prompt: Kindness
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/daily-prompt-kindness-2/ It’s entirely to easy to be braggadocios when an opportunity to play up a “good” trait is presented so instead, I’ll write to you a bit about how I learned to be kind. My Mother left for a New York and I was sent to stay with my Grandmother (very typical scenario in West…
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Daily Prompt: Heroic
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/daily-prompt-hero/ I don’t remember who my hero was at 5, but considering I wanted to be a Ninja Turtle with all my heart…I’ll go with Leonardo. I sincerely believed at the time that I could do it, I just needed to learn how to fight. The issue that arose very quickly with the physical aspects…
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Daily Prompt: The Outsiders
I live a block away from an open lot in NYC. I have many pictures of cats who have made it their home. We leave food for them sometimes and based on the empty tins and boxes around, we aren’t the only ones. As a pet owner it makes me think of the plight of…
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The deceptive nature of Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
I found the Delta of Venus in the Bargain bin at Barnes and Noble on one of my almost daily visits. It was a steal at $5.96 and I endeavored to read it as soon as I was done with my current read, which was The Doors of Perception. I couldn’t start it after because,…
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Mornings
My own tears woke me up this morning. Violent and unsettling. I was dreaming of her again and I let myself find comfort in a lie I can only tell when I’m asleep; that she’s available to me in a way that I could recognize. It usually starts with me trying to call on memories…
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Daily Prompts – Stand Still
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/daily-prompt-stillness/ If time were to stop right now, it would be near perfect. I’m watching http://www.saltybet.com on the computer, Ice Age: Continental Drift and this is one of the rare times that my cat is sprawled across me. If I could tweak this moment, I would move the cat to bed and I would still…
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