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Fashion Trends In 2025: Back To The Old Days
Since it’s a new year, fashionistas have been rethinking what it means to have style. Surely enough, it has given us time to rethink all those micro-trends that have been relentlessly pushed on us and decide -No, thank you. The “coastal grandma,” “tomato girl,” or even “brat summer” eras are just another marketing ploy, and…
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Reserve A Place For Me
Reserve a place for me, For I know Christmas is coming. Whatever delicacies you will prepare, Please reserve my share, darling. Reserve a spot for me at our usual bar, Where we always visited, you and I, For I wanna drink with you, Even if it’s for just a little while. Reserve a space around…
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Valentine’s Day
Happy New Year’s loves. I hope you all had a great holiday season. If you didn’t, I hope better opportunities are ahead of you. So, your fall boo is now your partner, congratulations! We are now navigating to the season of love, which is Valentine’s Day. Let me be the first to say Happy Valentine’s…
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Love Through The Ages
It can be said that love has been a formidable force that has been tested through the ages. Let us travel through the ages and discover how love has transformed into what we call the act or emotion today. Ancient cultures revered love as a divine force. It was a force orchestrated by the gods…
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Valentine Romance Reads
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and what better way to get in the spirit than with the perfect romance novels? Those overwhelming mushy and sappy feel-good reads will leave you more excited than ever for the love-filled day. I have compiled a list of my favorite romance novels. They vary from sweet to…
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Traversing The Quiet Season: How To Stay Safe While Winter Hiking
While we find ourselves outside to enjoy the winter season to its fullest before it comes to a close, it’s advised to keep your safety, as well as others, in mind while exploring the snow-covered trails. As someone who hikes throughout the year, wintertime has been the most dangerous if one isn’t careful. Before heading…
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Year Of The Snake
2025. A new, glorious year on planet Earth with promises of growth and good fortune. And for those of East Asian descent, the end of January means ringing in the next year of the Lunar calendar. And 2025 is the Year of the…Snake. Wait, what? I have only lived through one Snake year back in…
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Author Lauren Underwood Opens Up About The Power Of Storytelling
Lauren Underwood’s journey to becoming a published author is a testament to her passion, perseverance, and unyielding love for storytelling. From a young age, Lauren found herself captivated by books, and her interest in reading and writing developed hand in hand. By fourth and fifth grade, she was already crafting short stories that amused her…
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10 Stanzas For 10 Years As An Airman
Josh, one of our writers, joined the Civil Air Patrol, the all-volunteer United States Air Force Auxiliary, 10 years ago today. He wrote this poem to commemorate his service. “I became an Airman 10 years ago today. Started out in Butler County, PA. My first mission was to Somerset, my boot broke and I didn’t…
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Winter’s Crescendo
Among tall-aching pines, a grove lies embedded in the heart of winter, where silence reigns its crown. Each step heaves with an impression of transient existence on each powdery surface, a testament to fleeting moments all but forgotten. Needles and nettles fray— heavy with frost— glistening under dim eyes of light. They create a tapestry…
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The Day I Die
The day I die; When I’m being carried, To the gravesite, You must never think, That I’m missing the world. For what is there to miss, If not my mother, And siblings, My books, And those few good people, That care for me, As I care for them? The day I die, Do not mourn,…
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Stepping Out Of Our Comfort Zones
We all have a Comfort Zone, a psychological state where we feel safe, at ease, and in control of the environment around us. It is within this Comfort Zone that we tend to avoid new experiences or challenges; instead, we stick to familiar activities. These can include never missing a particular TV show, eating certain…