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Teens Can Be Princesses Too!

Just about every day I hear negative things about teens, as I’m sure everyone does. I hear about how we’re bratty and ungrateful. We’re self-absorbed and break promises. We shirk responsibility. We lie, cheat, and steal. We betray our closest friends and gossip incessantly. We don’t think; we only act. We can’t compose one grammatically correct sentence. We can’t do anything right. All of those things are true. These things are true about everyone on the planet. No, not everyone does all of those things. However, not all teens do these things either. Sometimes I feel stereotyped simply because of my age. I’m here for all the teenage girls out there to say that we can be princesses too and share some of the things that make a true princess!

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HIDDEN TREASURE

The scene is poignant.  An older man, a hard worker, in a room lit by candlelight, gently snuggled with a small cat, kneels down and looks toward heaven.   He desires something created, something that embodies love, something real.  The Blue Fairy, in all her wisdom, flies down and proclaims that his own wooden puppet would become a real boy once he embraced certain valuable human characteristics: to be a good boy.  She also mentions truth.

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BLOOMING IN ADVERSITY

Photo Credit: Meija Eller

I remember the day so well.  It was early February 1999, and Mulan had just been released to VHS.  My two-year-old daughter and I decided to snuggle on the couch that afternoon and watch this long awaited video together.  I was about five months pregnant at the time, and afternoon couch snuggles were like manna from heaven to me!

The phone rang.  The fact that I had a tumor removed a few days before never entered my mind.  It was a “pregnancy tumor” they told me, due to all the excess growth hormones.  What I was about to hear over the phone knocked me for a loop.

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