How It Began, My Vision, and Why You Should Check It Out — How It Began If you’ve been following along and reading my stories, you know one of my hobbies is creating art. I wrote a story about a non-toxic method to clean oil paint off of paintbrushes and a story about if acrylic painting is better than oil painting. …

Why I Expected More — With many people online and at work talking about seeing the Barbie movie and raving about it, I had to see why that was. Since the name of the movie is Barbie, I was expecting the stereotypical Barbie played more of protagonist role. I felt she gave up midway through…

The Pursuit of Living Comfortably — At the age of 11 or 12, in school, I was taught the difference between need versus want. However, as society advances, our definition of what is a need has expanded. To better draw the distinction, replace “want” with “luxury” and ask ourselves if certain comforts we consider essential to…

Trading Time For Low Compensation — The other day I reviewed a list of available shifts for volunteering, each spanning about 4 hours. I started doing some mental math, trying to figure out if trading my time for a t-shirt and a 2-day festival ticket was really worth it. However, the shifts that remained involved interacting…

Different Variables To Consider — I got a bunch of seeds from Dollar Tree. I didn’t expect much from them until I started to see green leaves and yellow flowers At first I was excited to see the yellow flowers, but I later learned it’s not as simple as just watering the soil and waiting…

Is what we see what others see? — A couple of weeks ago I went to the supermarket with my mom and misread a promotion. I saw the price was per pound and then read the discount. For some reason, without reading the entire sign, I jumped to the conclusion that the discount was also per pound. My…

This is Too Good to Be True — A lady I met at one of the festival booths left me a voice message that she got some exciting news for me and can’t wait to tell me all the details. I must’ve came close to how many beauty products was in the container and had won that container…

Confined By What is Expected — Their eyes were fixated at one particular area of my face. I knew what they were thinking. They didn’t have to say it. Ever since I was little, it was the center of other people’s attention. Every time I looked in the mirror, it was there staring back at me…

Despite Inflation and Shrinkflation — This past weekend I went to multiple stores. I learned there’s opportunity to save money by looking at the store ads and clipping digital coupons. For items that are soon to be expired, the store will reduce the price significantly. Signing up for cash back apps or to…