By now I’ve written up several DIYs for Too Damn Young, and so far each of these craft projects have (hopefully) been therapeutic for you to create. This project is a little different. While the…
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Rook by Sharon Cameron is different than any dystopian novel that I’ve ever read. It has the normal dystopian tropes — a society that was created after the downfall of flawed mankind, a fearless female…
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When we lose someone we love there’s a chance that denial will kick in. Rationalizing the overwhelming emotions may become a defense mechanism meant to deal with the shock, whether it’s a sudden death or…
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Death is tricky, and somewhat of a difficult thing to navigate as a friend of someone who’s suffered loss. Having been through loss myself, I have learned what is helpful and what is not, but…
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For my birthday this year, my grandmother sent me a small index card with very familiar handwriting scrawled across the front and the back. It was a letter (or more likely, the draft of a…
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My grandfather was named Joseph, but I, and most of my family, only ever called him Poppy Joe. He smoked cigars, drank red wine, loved Jimmy Buffet, was most at home at the ‘Beach’ in…
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