Surprise! An unscheduled post on a Sunday, of all days! That’s how you know today’s on an important topic. With December just 5.5 days away, I wanted to share with you something I will be participating in all throughout the last month of the year. Dressember Throughout the month of December, thousands of women (and …
If you follow me on Twitter, you saw that I participated in Dressember again this year. Dressember is a movement of women (and now men) who commit to a fashion challenge during December to raise awareness of and funds to end human trafficking. Most commit to wearing a dress or formal attire every day of …
According to the National Institute of Justice, human trafficking is: “Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age. The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or …
In a couple of days, I graduate, and a few days after that, I start my first full-time job. It’s an office job, a “real,” nine-to-five job. Everyone keeps asking, “What are your plans for life? Where do you want to be in five years, ten years? What are your goals?” I guess this is …
Who am I? This question begins to haunt us in about junior high, and continues to plague us for a while after that. The answers–or lack thereof–determine what path we follow after high school, what we do with our time, who we associate with. In a large part, our answers to this question become more …
Let me tell you a story about what’s been happening in my life recently. This story begins a long time ago, when I was a little girl. Really, though, the most important background information you need to know is that I always was incredibly shy. I suffered from timidity, and, starting in fifth grade, I …
Happy fourth of July!! For this Independence Day, I considered writing a post, “The Truth About the Fourth of July,” in which I illuminated all our misconceptions and expounded on true historical facts of the date. (Being a scholar of history, this seemed to me an appropriate approach to the holiday.) Yet, as I thought …