Maybe it’s the excessive amount of nail polish fumes mixed with temporary tattoos making me nostalgic, but my head has been filled with a constant flow of childhood memories all night. The random pictures I keep finding around my room probably help too. Either way all bring back such good times, when life was simple and my biggest obstacle was naptime, something I crave now.
Bubbles were my guilty pleasure. To my 3, 4, 5 year old self there was nothing better than the feeling of opening a new pack of bubbles. For hours, the rainbow spheres would occupy me. Running through the lush grass of neighbors’ yards barefoot, I took it upon myself to pop each and every bubble. Or sitting Indian style in my dress, not…
Hook ups: the topic of eighty percent of all high school conversation; and a hundred percent of the scandal. But it seems in American (and any culturally western nation) that there is some magical number that is the perfect amount of guys a girl can hook up with; a number no one seems to be able to achieve. If a girl hooks up with too few guys, she’s a prude. If a girl hooks up with too many guys, she’s a slut. No matter what school you go to, there are few girls who are spared the labeling of their romantic lives.
And the best part of this branding is that it is an almost completely female dilemma. If a guy gets with multiple girls at the same party, he gets…
What’s up? My name is Zuleika Lewis and I am a young woman who is 18 years old. I live in Concord, CA and I am a senior in High School. I was raised in Venezuela [South America] until I was almost 15 years old. Growing up in two different cultures where women are seen different led me to explore more feminism and see the different sides of it. Feminism has never killed anyone while machismo does, especially in Latin countries where women are more attached to the will of man. In part this is because women are not usually as independent and the mentality is still way back where the woman’s job is to be the traditional wife.
“Chuck Norris uses Tabasco Sauce for eye drops. Chuck Norris can sneeze with his eyes open. Chuck Norris got a perfect score on his SATs simply by writing Chuck Norris for every answer. Dinosaurs went extinct because of the Chuck Norrisaurus. Chuck Norris eats lightning and farts thunder. There is no Control button on Chuck Noriss’ computer. Chuck Norris is always in control. The world’s fastest car has 7 gears. 5, 6, and Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris invented the question mark. Chuck Norris can watch an episode of 60 minutes in 22 seconds. Chuck Norris is not only a noun, but a verb.”
I have never seen a movie starring Chuck Norris. That’s not even the point
What do you think our generation is about? We sure do txt message a lot.
I don’t think its Facebook, although that’s what all the 40-year-old men writing articles for Newsweek and Time seem to think.
Anyway this blog is really good for getting down to the issues. If you want to read a good piece about what needs to change in our society, this would be the place to do it.
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Usually when adults try to reach out to us it’s ridiculously ineffective and funny for a different reason but this one is pretty right on.
If you have any questions I can’t say that they’re the best people to ask (your Doctor probably is…) but you’ll get the best real-world answer. And please don’t ask me.