Category: Blog
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Current State of Children Globally: Policy Failures
The trending nature of child sex trafficking on social media outlets and the news suggests that the commodification of children is a new and rapidly growing issue relating exclusively to traffickers and pedophiles. This representation of child sex trafficking in fact stands in stark contrast to the statistical frequency of buying and selling children for…
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Dear Graduate (During a Global Crisis)
For those of you mourning the loss of celebrating graduation, I am too. Let’s talk about why you are actually this year’s MVP.
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You are the Soldier with the Spatula & that’s a Really Powerful Thing
As of July, Eric and I will have been at military life for 6 years. Our life has been preparedness for war since the day we got into this life. Here is what I can tell you about war. We often think of war as this overt act of battle. We think of troops in…
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The Empath & the Storm
With a pandemic on the rise, let’s talk about all things empathy, and the other important lessons to keep in mind during this time.
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How Your Love Story Can Help Child Brides
I’m lucky, because my love looks like this. All the time. You might read this and think, ‘no ones love is that good.’ I used to think the same thing. Until I met my husband that is. Sure, we have our moments where I jokingly threaten his life for the insurance money, but overall, it…
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Seeing Auschwitz
Dear Reader, *For those of you looking strictly for travel tips, scroll to the end. Except instead of skipping, I would read until the end. The travel story part includes good information for contextualizing your experience.* I have often wondered how so many people, specifically Jews, were successfully executed in WWII. 1.6 million to be…
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Lets Crowd Heaven
Let’s make heaven crowded. Let’s invite the kind people, the mentally ill people, the downtrodden people, the confused people, the loud people, the questioning people, the black, white, and yellow people. Let’s invite the transgender people, and the foreign people. Let’s ask the all of the imperfect people. Lets take with us both the prostitutes…
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The Power of a Decade
Here’s what I know about decades. About a decade ago, I was expelled from high school. The girls that bullied me so bad that I ended up in the hospital contributed to breaking a sense of my self worth that took me the better half of a decade, a lot of lifestyle changes, and a…
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Christmas Retold
I used to read the story differently than I do now. As a child, I read the story literally. An angel came to Mary and told her she would have a son and he would be named Jesus and peace would be brought to the world. Her and Joseph would travel to a faraway land,…
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Invite Her ⇢ What Fail Proof Friendship Looks Like
Last night was my annual ornament party. I started hosting this party on the principle of ⇢ Invite Her. I wanted a way for people to eat and drink and talk without pressure and make friends and feel wanted during the holidays. The holidays suck for a lot of people. It need not suck worse…
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Seeing Brussels, Belgium
Dear Reader, As this is still among my first of many travel blogs to come in the next few years, I am still figuring out my writing format. I have decided that the first part of the blog will be dedicated to my travel story. It is here that I will talk about things I…
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Schnitzel Binging Across the Pond – We made it to Germany
Guten Morgen Readers, As I write you this post I am sitting in a nearby bakery, sipping a cappuccino and eating a chocolate croissant made fresh this morning by the shop owner, Helga. It’s the quintessential experience we think of when one thinks of Europe, and I have fallen in love with it over the…
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PCSing Means Drinking Coffee from a Wine Glass
I was recently downing something jalapeño infused out of a perspiring copper mug with one of my best friends over lunch. We were talking about my blog as a whole, and how to grow it. She actually brought it up and said, “We need to get more people to read your material, have you considered…