Top albums lists are like as*holes: everyone’s got one. Um…that might, coincidentally, be because they are also like opinions. I’ve got my own set of favorite everythings..and that includes albums.
Below are my own top ten albums from 2008. Are there other great albums from the past year? Why certainly, diligent fan. […]
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Top 10 Albums of 2008 - According to ME
Is College Right For You? Maybe Not. (And That’s Ok!)
I, like you, went to high school. When I was in high school, I already knew that I wanted to be a musician and a writer when I grew up. Even though neither of those professions require a degree, I was made to believe that I had to go to college to be […]
Friends With An Ex: Possible, Important and Part of Growing Up
I would have never dated me three or four years ago. Sure, I was lovely in most ways and I was a catch in most ways, but there was one little thing about dating that I just didn’t get: being friends after the breakup.
When my heart was broken before, I knew exactly how to […]
Abortion: NOT an ‘Easy’ Choice
This political season, everyone who is against abortion keeps rattling off about how it’s an easy choice for a woman. I hear words scrambled into arguments that are excruciatingly harsh. Words like…MURDER and SELFISH and HUMAN LIFE and RESPONSIBILITY. I am here to tell you that abortion is never an easy choice. […]
If Drinking Had Been Legal When I Was 18…
Lots of people in the USA like to complain about the drinking age. And by lots of people, I mainly mean those who are under the legal drinking age of 21.
This included me when I was underage. I used to rant continually to any listening ear around me about how hard it was […]
Get Out of my Tube: The 5 Worst People on TV
I was raised, essentially, without TV. I use the word ‘essentially’ because we did have a TV. We just also had extremely conservative republican parents filtering everything that we watched on the total of 2 or 3 channels that we received with our antenna on the top of our TV. (One of those […]
Two Friends Date: Where Does My Loyalty Lie?
There’s a magical wonderland I’ve dreamed up in my make-believe social circle where people only date people who their friends don’t know. There are unicorns and wizards and lots of parties and gatherings that are NOT awkward in this wonderland. Unfortunately, this is a magical wonderland. Not reality.
In reality, we’re all very […]
Welcome to College (And All The Weird Situations it Brings)!
Launching your cute little self out of your comfort zone and into the land of college is exciting…’cause, if your ‘comfort zone’ growing up was anything like mine…just about any circumstance would be more comfortable. Or so you think.
You don’t truly realize the invisible lines that are drawn in society until college. You […]
