[Warning: blood, violence, heavy subject matter.] The entire course of my life changed greatly on the day of my 13th birthday. My parents had been practicing giving me more independence and freedom, allowing me to travel a little further away from home each year since I was 10 and at 13, I knew I was going to be allowed to […]
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All my life, I’ve seen commercials for anti-aging creams on TV, ads to cover the greys in your roots as I scroll through Facebook or Instagram on my phone, and heard dozens of celebrities advocate for botox and other injections in media. People say that youth is the societal standard for beauty and that the billion-dollar industry relies on your […]
Ahhh, it’s that time again. A count down at midnight will transition us all into a brand-new year. With that, as we have many times before, many of us will make large and foolish promises to ourselves that we intend to keep for the next three hundred and sixty-five days. Most of us will not be able to keep the […]
Dear Danika, I need to talk about a boy I met named Jimothy. Jimothy came into my life at the perfect time, I had just been ghosted by a man I fell head over heels for, and here came this glimmering light of a human being. We clicked immediately, our humour and personalities as a whole were the same. We […]
Journal, Do you think Mother would finally be proud? They all will know my name now. Generations to come will dissect my work. I wonder when they will understand my message… Long after I’m gone, I’m sure. It angered me to see Scarlett in that dreadful room in front of all those people. She was whimpering. Still, she faced them […]
This year has been tremendously weighing on us, and with Christmas right around the next corner, many of us are feeling the strain more detrimentally now than at any other point of this year. Some of us are worried about not being able to see our friends and family, all our loved ones on Christmas of all days! It seems […]
