July 24, 2014

Trailer Thursday: Very Good Girls

Very Good Girls surrounds two lifelong friends spending their last summer at home together in New York City before heading off to college. Both…

July 24, 2014

Blake Lively’s ‘Preserve’ is a Glorified Etsy Favorites Shop — But I love it

Once in a while, a new website is launched that almost immediately becomes a staple on your bookmark bar. Germ, Refinery29, and now Preserve.us….

July 28, 2014

Figment’s Featured Writer: E.R. Warren

Figment.com is an amazing site “where writers write, meet, create, share, and connect,” and each week Figment features one of their members. The “Featured Fig” is interviewed, and…

July 26, 2014

Indpndt photo art by Katharina Jung

  Abandoned houses and castles, forests and foreign cultures let me dream. Daydreams allow me the entrance into a world in which I can…

July 26, 2014

Celeste (For Her) by Seanna Pratt

I like her hands because they are her hands. Small moonlight basins. Spreads them along my knee careful; a glass telescope, a nervous comet….

July 23, 2014

I Should’ve Told Her by Maggie Bowyer

I could hear my best friend down the hall. The room was still dark. I didn’t know how I’d gotten there or where you’d…

July 28, 2014

Meet American Blonde

It is my singular honor to write about my favorite book series! Why write about my favorite book series, you ask? Because Jennifer Niven’s American…

July 25, 2014

Little Orphan Annie Gets An Update

Quvenzhané Wallis. Pronounced KWA-van-ja-nay. A little girl with a yell like no one else, and 2014’s new Annie. The musical Annie has a history…

July 22, 2014

Better Love

When I think of what exemplifies love, family, and music, I think of the DuPree family. If you haven’t heard of them, fire up your…

July 17, 2014

JK Rowling Releases “Where Are They Now” Potter Story

Through the years, we’ve all seen various book fads come and go. Most enjoy their 5 minutes of fame and then accept their fate…

July 26, 2014

The Truth About Cutting

It’s summertime: time to break out the tank tops and shorts! I stand apprehensive at my closet, looking in. My heart thuds, sending my…

July 26, 2014

Time Travel, AKA Journaling

“I began writing on The Albany Project today and that felt great. I’m hoping it leads to a job – a good one, maybe…

July 24, 2014

Eating Disorders: A Modern Epidemic

It is the sad truth that impressionable young girls desire to look the same as models, actresses, and other famous female celebrities they see…

July 21, 2014

Find Thyself: Summer Edition

I’ve always been a relatively shy person, only opening up and having bursts of “weirdness” around the people who I am truly comfortable with….

July 29, 2014

I Am That Girl

“Who’s That Girl? THAT GIRL is the best version of each of us. She’s all ages, ethnicities, classes, and religions. She’s got a smokin’…

July 29, 2014

Day 210

Want to wander someplace lovely?  Cara Harrington of Tourist Meets Traveler highlights Amazing Natural Wonders You Must See including this amazing photo of Lake…

July 28, 2014

Day 209

   

July 28, 2014

Summer Lovin’ = Lovin’ Summer School

Summer School. Approached with disdain and disgust by disgruntled youth everywhere, this American tradition amounts to little more than an afterthought for many —…