I want to talk to you about something that weighs heavy on my heart. 14 kids and 3 adults died a couple weeks ago. They were shot. In school. With a gun. I’m sure you’ve heard. Or perhaps you’re wondering which time I’m referring to. Parkland, Florida, this time. The way I found out was …
Feminism. We knew it in 2017, and we sure as heck know it in 2018. It might be a strange thing for me, a female, to say, but I have a love-hate relationship with the term. The word has taken on a new form, and I have taken to not using it at all. “the …
Cancer. I want to talk to you about cancer. For most of my life, it was something I felt very detached from. I had never known anyone with cancer, let alone having it myself, and I had never heard a ‘cancer story’. This all changed when I was about eleven, as it is bound to. …
I wrote this essay several months ago, as a civics assignment, but it is very relevant to the kind of things I want to be posting. As this year has progressed, it seems more and more things have happened to make us wish we had a voice. Where everyone fails is thinking they don’t have …
At some point, we all have to come to a conclusion about what is most important to us. I think it took me quite awhile. Throughout my life, different things have been the things I think about the most, and care the most about. At one point, friends. Another time, the way I look. Having …
Hello everyone! My {pen} name is Adelaide, {use it if you want, or you can just do A} and I’m thirteen. I created this blog so I could share with you my essays, stories, photos, artwork, and anything else! I love to write, read, draw, dance, listen to music, play my guitar, sing, and spend …