Deenie is a 1973 young adult novel by Judy Blume, about Deenie, a middle school girl with scoliosis. It also includes other aspects of adolescent development, but unlike Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, which covers a girl's coming of age in general, this book focuses on Deenie's scoliosis.
Deenie is a seventh grader in Elizabeth, New Jersey whose mother wants her to be a model. While trying out for modelling and cheerleading, she has problems with her posture, which are
…Back during the late Bush or early Obama era I remember reading a lot of articles about how the hydrogen fuel cell was going to replace the internal combustion engine and usher in a grand new era of cars that emitted water instead of carbon dioxide. Even at the time I knew enough to ask where the hydrogen was coming from. If it was electrolysis then where was the electricity coming from? I assumed I must be missing something. Now we have electric vehicles and I know I wasn't. We are currently
…Earth 2100 is an eighty-ish minute documentary released in 2009 and 2010 by ABC and the History Channel about the collapse of global civilization by the year 2100. You can watch the whole thing here. It traces the life of a woman born in 2009 and stops off in 2015, 2030, 2040, 2050, 2065, 2085, and 2100. Lucy, our point of view character, experiences the slow degradation of the environment and resource depletion. From 2015 to
…There's a band I love that I still follow occasionally. Their music is enjoyable, but I prefer their earlier work, mostly due to nostalgia since I was there back then. Their newer music feels less authentic to me. It's ironic because their old songs were often abstract or nonsensical, yet felt more genuine and raw. Their recent material has shifted toward generic positivity. It's all 'love and light' and 'everything will be okay', which comes across as hollow and inauthentic
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