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Maintaining Good Habits During National Nutrition Month

Growing Up, Eating Right

Up until I was about fourteen, my immigrant grandmother lived with us. She made sure I was always well fed while my parents went to work. I wasn't a picky eater...  unless it looked funny. Egg...

Advocating Bullying Awareness

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Fat Kid Rules The World- Interview with Julian Gavilanes

 While the issue of bullying is nothing new, there has been a wonderful, overwhelming sweep of activism against bullying in movies and the news lately. I was personally never bullied. Maybe, o...

Life Lessons of a Rock Star

In my teen years, life felt much more dramatic than it actually was. Nothing was fair and everything was the end of the world. For about an hour at a time. And then I'd go write a song and regain m...

The Skirt I Shouldn't Have Worn To School

Making the transition into high school can be difficult for some girls. High school is an experience that you go into feeling all grown up and come out of only to reflect on just how much you've le...

Finding A Prom Dress That Lives Up To The Perfect Invitation And Teaches Your Teenage Daughter The Size On The Tag Doesn't Define Her Beauty

It’s been two weeks since my oldest daughter was asked to prom on a perfect sunny evening on a hillside overlooking the Seattle skyline.  The roses have dried and time’s marched on; leading us to t...

My Experience With Dieting in the 8th Grade

 Our bodies are just as different as we are. They take in exercise and tolerate foods very differently, with some help from scientific and genetic factors. Although it may be difficult to chan...

The Importance of Making Time for Yourself

 When I was in junior high, I learned something about myself. I learned that I hate being bored. I began to load up a full plate of extracurricular actives: jazz choir, dance, student body gov...

Letter to Self

By now, there are things you know you want to do, goals and aspirations you have, values and beliefs that you stand by… believe it or not, these things will change over and over again no matter how...

A love letter

Dearest, While you were out, I scrubbed your angry fingerprints off the mirror. I tied endless knots in your measuring tape. I put my heel through your scale, splintered your eye pencil, and ...