Tag: Inspiration
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In Search of Truth: A Journalist’s Tips for Modern News Consumers
By Ivy Guiler When I first arrived in Washington, D.C., I was filled with excitement, a sense of patriotism, and high expectations for the work I was about to do. A few months and one presidential election later, my excitement transformed into frustration, my patriotism was left jaded, and my high expectations were drowned at…
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Music Will Change Your Life: Stranger Things
Season 1 of Stranger Things was the beginning of Gen X Watch. It presented a compelling thought. Some of our nostalgia and trauma are intertwined in a beautiful dance. In season one young Will Byers is missing. He is trapped in the Upside Down, a dark and mysterious realm coexisting with our own. It is…
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You Made August Matter For Strong Women!
This month was really a sifting of the wheat from the chaff. There were challenging articles and the readers took to the challenge. It is ever a reminder of how wonderful and powerful our audience is. This was a rare month that we did not have growth, but we missed that by less than 200…
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Stormy Daniels and Her Refusal to be Silenced
Does Stormy Daniels have anything in common with Maya Angelou, Cyndi Lauper, and Kathleen Hannah? Does she deserve to be more than a punchline in counterpunches? Is it time for Feminism to move beyond SWERFS? Can a sex worker be a victim of sexual assault? Absolutely! Other Fem Fridays we have written about were strippers…
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Dolly Parton And the Choices We Make
Can where we come from shape our views? Is the joke on us? Can our words show truth? Did the choices of others both deter and inspire a young writer? Dolly Parton embodies the best of the yeses to these questions with Country Class and kindness that enlightenment and education doesn’t always provide. This is…
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The Important Reflections of Jenny’s Feedback
Last Friday I wrote and published an interview called, “Jenny’s Feedback and Graceful Truth“. It was not only the most popular Fem Friday in over three months, but it also created some comments that have left me moved. Jenny is profoundly deaf. She communicated to me about her experiences as a woman who felt the…
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Bjork’s Avant Garde Life and a Kiss Sweeter Than Sugarcubes
Can an artist always experimenting defy definition? Is it possible to mash up various inspirations into one inspiring figure? Can Gen Xers hear the voices of the young and change and grow while still setting a social tone? And can her early concert bind two lost souls into a first kiss? If we are talking…
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How Maya Angelou’s Life Continues to Inspire Change
Dr. Maya Angelou was an activist, poet, dancer, actor, civil rights leader, screenwriter, playwright and so much more. Not only did she win numerous humanitarian awards and received over 50 honorary degrees, but she won and inspired the hearts of more people we will ever know about. She is an iconoclast who spoke truth to…
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July Bridges Past Trauma to Future Hope
July's theme was a focus on common connections between generations. The main focus was X to Z, but the Silent Generation, Boomers, and Millennials were all touched on. This month was also the month that we reduced our volume of content so the Editor in Chief could focus on the YA novels based on some…
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Thank You for Being a Friend Bea Arthur
Do Bea Arthur and Cyndi Lauper have something in common? Could artist and art be unified in cause? Did Bea Arthur inspire me and change me in my 50’s? Yes. The Golden Girls is a rare and special gem in entertainment. A television sitcom that premiered in 1985 captured the hearts of the Silent Generation,…
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