Long Form: Removal of Confederate Monuments

July 21, 2020, 5 Comments

Unless you are totally new here, then you know that I value history. I love it. I have a degree in it. I live for it. Much of this blog is dedicated to history in one way or another. So…when I hear people crying “They are erasing history!” it should be an alarm bell to…

Why I Left the Knott’s Ambassador Program

July 8, 2020, 26 Comments

At the end of last year, I was selected to be one of Knott’s Berry Farm’s Anniversary Ambassadors. This meant I would be among some of the first to know what was happening at the Farm, write for the Knott’s Berry Blog, in addition to covering their various happenings here on my own blog, in…

Text cloud reading "Learn, Converse, Donate, Buy, Protest, Vote, Petition"

Keep Your Foot On the Gas

June 24, 2020, 2 Comments

As mentioned in the previous post, activism will be incorporated into the blog (in fact I just gave it its own category, you’ll find “Activism” under “My Vintage Life”), and today I want to expand upon that. As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to climb here in California (yeah, we haven’t peaked yet) I’ve been…

Black and white image of protestors. Yellow text overlay reads "Black Lives Matter"

Be the Change

June 3, 2020, 3 Comments

I had an entirely different post planned for today, but it is being put off until next week, because it is vital to take a moment to reflect and make it very clear where I stand regarding the current situation in America. In the past I have made mention that I do not support the…

Myself, wearing a pink mini dress and blue scarf carrying a sign reading "I Shouldn't Be Living Through Things I Studied in History" along side my friend Kaitlyn who wears a shirt reading "She Believed She Could So She Did" and carrying a pink sign reading "Women's Rights are Human Rights"

Women’s March 2019

January 21, 2019, 17 Comments

I struggled a lot with deciding to write this post. After the election of 2016, I struggled a lot with my blog overall. It felt small, pathetic, and unimportant compared to the issues we were going to be facing with the new administration. But I received a lot of encouragement to keep going, as it…