Category: Food For Thought
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Dating in 2022: “Trust No One, Swipe Left”
I sipped my wine in slight euphoria, watched him pay for the check and write the tip with ease. The server comes to pick up the receipt and thanks us. We both smile and thank him as well. “We can sit here for a little bit,” my date smiled, leaning back in his chair. “I […]
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Black People’s Mental Health Is At Risk Consuming Race-Based Violent Videos Online
We watch our people killed by police right from our smartphones – and white supremacists are even live-streaming their murders! We want to stay “informed,” but is watching this racially violent content actually doing us more harm than good? Listen to Live Hangouts, Tahyira Keeps It Too Reel, a podcast covering Black mental health by […]
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Favorite Color
My favorite color Used to be red. How easy it was to swipe the shade Across my lips And pull it over my head To hug my body. But they didn’t like that color on me Only liked to see the dress On their bedroom floor instead. They convinced me all the time I started […]
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Pillow Talk
His mattress was on the floor, two pillows dressed up his bed. It gave off the potential of an artist but it looked like he was pretending. He never asked me if I liked his place, probably because he knew that even with my falsity to it all, he could still tell I was lying. […]
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Waking Life in 2022
Is anyone else tired more than usual?
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The Art Of Privacy
On the most recent episode of the Fox comedy Call Me Kat, I was truly able to empathize with Randi (played by Kyla Pratt) and her reasoning behind not wanting Carter (Julian Gant) to know her middle name. I, too, have anxiety letting others know everything about me. And even though telling someone your middle […]
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I Spent The Latter Half Of 2021 Completely Disrespecting My Body. And It Showed.
I wish I could say it was a shock to me when, one day, I looked up at my reflection and caught a glimpse of what was surely the negative effects of spending the last half of 2021 neglecting my body. It wasn’t. Pandemic body? Is that what they were calling it? Well, whatever it […]
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On seeing through the fog…
In a city like Boulder, Colorado, a town I lived in for 11 years, where they boast that the sun shines nearly 300 days a week, it’s always a little strange when you can’t see the mountains behind the clouds. And, then, it’s such a revelation when they begin to lift and expose the glorious […]
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How To Stay Positive During 2022
By: Rochelle Jones So the new year is upon us, and almost everybody in the world is doing the same thing. Coming up with ways to make their new year lighter and better while letting some things go and making a list of resolutions and goals to have a productive upcoming year. However, according to […]
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For This New Year
I want to live. I want to have that kind of life that I’ve always wanted. The kind that I can tell my fifteen-year-old self it was worth going through what I had to go through to get here. I want to be happy. The kind of happy that makes others uncomfortable. To wonder how […]
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The Secret Garden
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett continues to be a favorite book that I have gone back to reread about three times already. Published in 1911 in England, this children’s book has […]
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What Does It Truly Mean To Be Single?
BY: Rochelle Jones Single. The word itself packs a double-sided punch. There’s a sense of pride and excitement about being single. You’re independent; you don’t have to make decisions based on others. There are no birthdays, anniversaries, family gatherings, or holidays to stress over with your significant other. You have total authority over your own […]
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How Would It Be After The Apocalypse? These Shows Paint You A Picture
I think we can all agree that this last few years have made us wonder a bit about the end of the world… From global warming, to, obviously, COVID, passing through the rise of terrorism and the political instability everywhere, we can picture many scenarios where our world can just take a wrong turn…
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So… Hustle Culture…
“Time is money”. “They’re sleeping while you’re working”. “You gotta hustle hard”. “It’s time to rise and grind”. “The hustle never stops”. “You can’t sleep for 8 hours, that’s for poor people”. “Don’t have fun in your twenties, just grind and enjoy the fruits of your labor in your forties”. “We all have the same […]
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Why I Kill
People ask me why I take pleasure in killing men. What is it about the crime that makes my toes curl, my eyes darken? Why do I enjoy taking their power away, the one thing that makes them men? Why do I crave their blood, feast on their pain, thirst their screams and their heartless, […]
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My Battle with Anxiety
TW: I don’t recommend anyone reading this in an anxious state, come back later love. I was at work, I sat in my office chair and looked over the day’s invoices I had to finish. The night before I slept three to four hours after returning from a rowdy night from the bar with friends. […]
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A Woman, Like Me, Must Write
I’m aware of what they think of me. I’m aware of what they say. I’m used to the degradation, the belittlement, the constant criticism of my ways. I’m a woman of stature, but of course, men don’t like confident girls, girls who are too sure of themselves. Confidence is sexy to many, but a woman […]
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Is Hispanic Heritage Month inclusive enough?
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! From September 15th to October 15th, celebrations of Hispanic culture are in order, stories and the contributions of our ancestors that came from Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean and Central and South America are embraced. Before we became Latinos, Latinx or Chicanos, our ancestors were Hispanic and in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson […]
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Growing Pains
Growing is a painful yet remarkable experience.
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