In Taliah's Head:

 ENTRY #8: Poetry Hey guys, welcome baack :)  Do you ever think about how insane reading is? I mean like really think about it. Our brains scan these symbols and it allows us to imagine people and places that make us feel things, crazy right? I love it. I absolutely love it. I'm a pretty good writer myself, not the best, but not the worst either. I'm definitely more of a reader than a writer, but I feel like the two go hand-in-hand, you know? I wrote a poem my senior year of high-school, but the only person who read it was my teacher, so I though I'd share it here as well because why not?  Count It All Joy Count it all joy through your trials and tribulations Face them with patience Build your endurance   Let your courage pull you through em’ with prudence  The powers undisputed, refute it Take it apart, analyze it, prove it It’s written untampered with  Supreme in wisdom arithmetic How do I know and bear this witness? What entitles me to spit this? Could i...

 Entry 7: F R E S H  Hey guys, welcome back :)  So I recently watched a documentary called "Fresh," and it was SO interesting. There was so much information on food sustainability, the cost of food, food production, farmer's markets, the economic connection, and so much more. I'm not going to lie, a lot of the information in the documentary was already known to me.  My dad's a Muslim, and before he and my mom got divorced, he had all these rules about what my siblings and I were and weren't allowed to eat. I remember growing up, we weren't allowed to eat pork, Takis/Hot Cheetos, dark sodas, Lunchables, marshmallows, gummy candy, skittles, starburst, rice kripsy treats, some peanut-butters/jellies, pop tarts, shrimp, the list goes on. Even certain cereals were prohibited in my house. Honestly, anything containing gelatin, high levels of high fructose corn syrup, or pork was immediately banned in my household. We weren't allowed to use the microwave beca...