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There are two sides to every story. This is mine. My parents never let me feel good about myself. They did so through a number of means, but one of the main tools that they used to keep me down was my weight; having a daughter who was overweight was embarrassing for them. And if I cried over any hurtful comment that they made, I was told that I was…

Amanda Gorman recites “The Hill We Climb” at the Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th President and Kamala D. Harris as the 49th Vice President of the United States of America

The first single from the band James.

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Exsqueeze me? A Baking Powder? Editor’s Note: Move Quote Freestyle is an online blogging game invented by Jennifer Hooker. The game is fairly simple. A player opens up a dialogue by posting a movie quote. Next, anyone else who is interested in engaging the first player in a “cypher” responds by commenting on the original post with another movie quote that plays off of the first one. This continues for…

I used to write on paper because it was heroic. Poetry, lyrics, even passages for novels. I had three or four journals that I lugged around like trophies. Better yet, artifacts from a waning era that few still appreciated. I know that I appreciated it when I witnessed others writing on paper. It was a communal demonstration of the sacred. I couldn’t stand when aspiring novelists assended upon the coffee…