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This blogging thing will take some getting used to, but I’m looking forward to stepping into uncharted waters. Hi, I’m Ashley. I recently graduated from university with my Bachelor’s degree in English/Creative Writing and my passion and goal in life is to have others read and appreciate my works. Poe, King, Mass, Tolkien, Shelley, and
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War and disease threatened to create an apocalypse; but the world went on. News and propaganda spread fear to sink into the minds of millions; but the world went on. Death, destruction, and chaos seemed to be around every turn; but the world went on. You can apply this to every decade, era, or period
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What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? There are many aspects from different cultural influences in my life that I find interesting. My Southern American heritage is something that I experience nearly everyday of my life with the food I eat and the words I say such as,
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I try not to dwell on the future very often, as I don’t live there quite yet. But I find myself smiling at the thought of all the things I’ve yet to do and experience. All the sights I haven’t seen. The foods I haven’t yet tried. The laughs I haven’t yet had. The people
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What would your life be like without music? I truly cannot imagine my life without music, especially since I’m a singer and pianist myself. At best, I think it’d be pretty miserable. Music has gotten me through some of the hardest times in my life. It’s something I feel very connected to and that I
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Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. Back when I was getting my Associates degree at a local community college, I was taking a French class that had a project where you had to make a French dessert from scratch and bring it to share with the class. Bringing anything homemade was an
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Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. One thing I wish I would’ve learned earlier on is life is that an individual’s self worth is not determined by those around them. I, like many of us, spent my teenage years obsessing over how I would be perceived by my peers and
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I always find myself fascinated by the new discoveries I make every time I venture into my ancestry/genealogy hobby. It’s always even more surprising when I find family history from hundreds of years prior just miles from where I grew up. Captain James Kell is my 6th-great-grandfather. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1760 and
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What are you doing this evening? This evening, my husband and I went out to play disc golf after he got home from work. We drove about twenty-five minutes away to a beautiful course that plays around a small body of water. Although I’m not athletic whatsoever, I like to walk alongside my husband as
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What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you? As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed more traits and characteristics in individuals that I try to avoid being around. While narcissism, dishonesty, and apathy are all major red flags to me, pessimism is the one I dislike most. Being around a person who is
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