Larissa Martin
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
You Can Visit Your Past But Don’t Live in It
Whether I’m eating a favorite childhood meal or watching an old movie, I’m a big fan of visiting the past. I love to remember simpler times when I had fewer responsibilities. It’s nice (and even tempting) to visit the past now and then, but I still choose not to live in it. We all crave a time when life was “easier.” We’d rather look back on better times than face our current situations. But even though it’s okay to visit old times for a little while, don’t stay there so long
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Larissa Martin
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
When I'm Pressured to Go on a Diet as a Person With Cerebral Palsy
I am physically disabled. I have cerebral palsy and am an amputee. I am a wheelchair user, and I cannot transfer so I have to rely on aides, family and sometimes friends to lift me. I have been a foodie for as long as I can remember. I always know when my parents want to talk to me about my weight. I call it “the talk.” It always starts the same way. They say, “We noticed you’re eating a lot of junk lately.” It most often ends with me agreeing to go on a diet. Not because I
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Larissa Martin
- Feb 2, 2021
- 3 min
Why We Need To Stop Comparing Black Lives Matter Protests To The Capitol Hill Riot
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve definitely heard about the events that took place on January 6, 2021, at Capitol Hill. Then, people started to draw a comparison between this riot and the Black Lives Matter protests last summer. However, there’s a huge difference between these two events. By now we all know about the horrific events that took place on January 6 that led to the historic second impeachment of Donald Trump due to his involvement in the latest ter
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