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If I could turn back time to high school, I wouldn’t

High school, ah, the memories! I was doing a little internal reminiscing about it myself recently and honestly, it had me cringing before you can even say “I’m late for homeroom.” Although these are only some of them, here are a plethora of the reasons why I’d never want to hop back into those hallowed halls: • Cliques and social drama High school was like a real-life soap opera. The cliques, the gossip, the unspoken rules – it was a veritable jungle in there. Remember the cafeteria seating chart? It was like a strategic battle plan. • Awkwardness High school ...

Working through sadness caused by deception

Unfortunately for us humans, certain things in life are, well, ill-fated. In other words, in every life a little sad must fall. And at one point or another, each of us faces a time when someone we care for deeply lets us down. It’s inevitable. But I happened upon a study by ...

Riding radical rollercoaster of recent(ish) inventions

I saw this article recently entitled “40 Things that Didn’t Exist 40 Years Ago.” Intrigued, I had to check out some of these said things. Here we go: Selfies — Though the concept is kind of timeless, never has it been so easy to take hundreds of self-portraits. Just think of how odd it’ll be in the near future, with adults reminiscing about old times over photos of their younger selves taken at arm’s length. Just as my own personal take, these have technically existed for many moons, we just never referred to them as selfies, right? Premade sandwiches — On mornings ...

Recapping some of the most quotable cinematic moments

Although it’s spring and after Hollywood’s big award season, I’ve still been in a silvery-screen mood. So, I went in search of some of the most iconic movie lines of all time. Sure enough, a quick little web search landed me on a www.msn.com link that provided precisely that. So, ...

Totally go back in time with this ’80s child

Oh, old PK and her internet meanderings. This week, your favorite annoyance went delving into an article on www.bing.com entitled, “You Know You’re a Child of the ’80s When…” The contents of the article amused me a bit, so I thought I’d share them with my favorite readers; those being any who are willing to continue following my silly ramblings week after week. And thank you to you both, by the by. I digress. The article honoring the nostalgic ’80s offered some of the following as tell-tale signs as characteristics of those of us who are children of said ...

Practice positivity with some helpful hints

Life is tough, as we all know. And some days are more challenging than others. So, in an effort to spread a little joy this Sunday, I thought I’d offer some tried-and-true techniques for doing just that, a’ight? As is my MO to do, I took to the internet in search of suggestions from ...