Category: Food For Thought

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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...

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…

Why I Kill Men

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,…

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.…

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…

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…

Growing Pains

Growing is a painful yet remarkable experience.

Meet TREMG Writer Charlene: Vulnerable Without Question

I’m going to be vulnerable. It’s no longer a question this time, but a clear, definite statement. When you begin to lack inspiration, you can’t help but become vulnerable within your own writing, even when you don’t want to be. It becomes inevitable almost, your fingertips itching and seething to write what needs to be…

We Don’t Need You

One of the worst things a man can do is underestimate the capabilities of a woman. Some men despise a woman’s ability to call them out on their bullshit. They shrink like little boys at a rally because their ego can’t handle the truth. But in order not to let the truth be told, they…

I Don’t Believe in Love

The girl’s hands tightened as the question she pondered over was said. However, once the question left her mouth, a thickened silence had fallen over both her and the boy who stood in front of her. She knew this was going to happen. The girl had been in this situation many times before, and all…

Gravity

I keep writing bits and pieces, leave a story unfinished, unpolished by man, a woman at her best. I believe this to be a metaphor, and a good one at that. I’m being rewritten at the dome, reconstructed by the bell, become a narrative unfinished at the workings of God, polishing my beauty with grace.…

24 and Single With No Desire to Mingle

Unless you are a book boyfriend from any of the books I am reading, or Manny Montana or William Levy or Sebastian Stan or Jay Ellis or any of the hot men from HBO’s “Insecure,” please do not enter my vicinity. My department is closed, this mansion is unavailable. No, sir. No, thank you. Not…

Stash Invests Creates LGBTQ+ Content On Its App, Are We Too Take All These New Found Advocates Seriously

We caught a glipse of a story about how the pandemic had affected LGBTQ+ respondents more than those who are just straight. The article then goes on the restate the same issue, poor and at risk communities have suffered more than rich white suburbans communities. Isn’t that why the majority voted for a new Commander…