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Monday, April 30, 2012
April 20th, the good people of William and Mary to do something great-- to spoon each other, friends and strangers alike, in a show of solidarity, supremacy, and silliness.
Friday, April 27, 2012
I have long been a fan of the poet Mary Oliver, a dear American woman who has a seemingly endless ability to pin down the natural world with a poem. Though I have read many of her collections, my favorite Mary Oliver poem was dropped in to my lap a couple of years ago, at the end of a yoga class. Lying in a Savasana with my eyes closed, I, along with a roomful of fellow yogis, listened as...
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Barbie has been an iconic part of most young girls’ upbringing. Her “perfect body” has been obsessed over by many, even to the extent of girls trying to look like her. Who wouldn’t want to be Barbie? She is beautiful, has an amazing body, is dating Ken, and has gorgeous friends. The problem is that she is just a doll and “the way she is right now, the representation...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
This past weekend, over 3,000 newly admitted students flocked to William & Mary for a day full of campus tours, a football game, and an activities fair complete with a picnic lunch in the Sunken Gardens. Her Campus William & Mary was well represented with a team of smiles, hugs, and cute paper crowns to hand out that provided information on our branch and how they can get involved...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The name “Crystal Light” comes as no surprise for anyone, but for the first time we’re hearing “Hard Candies” paired with it!
Crystal Light’s powdered mix drinks were definitely something we all grew up with. As a kid, it was perfect for having lemonade stands on a sunny summer day. In middle school (or at least at mine), having these powdered mixes...
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Today, American culture seems to be centered around appearance. We consistently struggle to appear normal, healthy, and in control of our lives, not to mention attractive. This focus arises out of some sort of confusion; somewhere in our nation’s societal development we began to confuse the internal and external, believing internal afflictions to be solvable by external, appearance-based...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
We’ve heard this message time and time again… grandma has preached it, mom has engrained it into our brains, and multiple campaigns have promoted it: high self-esteem is beautiful. But in trying times, it is easy to occasionally let go of this ideal and send our sense of self worth straight into our squirrel-inhabited dumpsters.
Being in such a competitive environment (cough,...
Friday, March 23, 2012
“My hairline is so weird…my pores are huge…my nail beds suck.” Why do we, as women, always feel the need to connect over the negative? While most of us don’t analyze micro details on our bodies such as pores and nail beds, we often denounce our differences as imperfections because of a fixed idea of beauty that society has set for us. This makes no sense. Why not...
Friday, March 23, 2012
As a curvy girl, it’s fairly obvious that the fashion world tends to under-represent us. But not being the often-photoshopped and advertised shape doesn’t make us any less capable of being fashion-forward and fabulous.
Some of us devour fashion magazines or blogs but get tired of seeing only one type of body- us bigger girls like fashion inspiration, too! It may seem impossible...
