This question has been weighing on me for the last year. When COVID-19 broke out, China was in the spotlight and everything I was seeing was negative. COVID-19 was referred to as “the Chinese virus” and “Kung Flu” and there were reports throughout the U.S. of Chinese American businesses closing, Chinese Americans being spit on, …
If you’ve never been to Great Wolf Lodge, you have to go! Although we have been before, our most recent visit was the very best one we have ever had. Initially, I was hesitant and unsure about going because of COVID concerns, but the lodge is still howlin’ on. The cancellation policy offered by Great …
Written anonymously by a guest contributor to inform consumers and encourage them to make smart investments and protect themselves and their loved ones from unethical business practices I have been in the remodeling industry for four years now, primarily working on the sales side of the business. There are many businesses in the Tidewater area, …
Every day it keeps repeating, the wish, I wish, would stop, that my love would be bigger, that my love would be enough. Enough to keep the tears from falling, the fists from clenching up tight, the falling, the writhing, the screaming, the fears that wake her up at night. Bigger than every worry, every …
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Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at no cost to you. Nanah-jan said, “In this land, it is better to be a stone than to be a girl” (Qaderi 156). “Every day on my way to school, I would …
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at no cost to you. This short book will leave you longing. In a strange mix of emotions, the end is finished but in a way, tells you nothing. It leaves you with …
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at no cost to you. Years ago, I shared essays of belief with my students from NPR’s series This I Believe. The essays were both written and spoken, and one particularly powerful one …
My sweet little daughter called me “Miss Linda” all weekend. She even called her grandma “Miss Linda.” Miss Linda is her teacher at daycare, and she doesn’t look anything like me. My daughter isn’t accidentally mixing us up because we look alike. She is mixing us up because she loves us both. When I woke …
Today was a really hard day. I sat at the table and cried. Not pretty raindrop tears but a total wash out that has left its mark. I keep trying to cover up the wiped away make up and distract from the red eyes with some eyeshadow before my class starts on Zoom, but it’s …
