the chronicles and imagination of Amanda hazard
Most of us grow up with someone look up to: someone we admire for all the things they do for us, or the things they’ve done for others, or for accomplishing things that we want for ourselves. I just happen to be so lucky to have that someone be a person that has not only been in and around my life forever, but also help raise me.
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I started writing at a really young age. I remember my teachers from elementary school submitting my assignments for contests that were held throughout the school year, and finding my work on the walls, in different halls. I always had a vivid imagination, consumed with the ideas of magic and grandeur, life always moving on and throwing you around. I started out as a little girl with a lot of things to think about and say, and paper just seemed to be the perfect place to do that.
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You know what’s a weird feeling? Thinking about one event for so long that you’re no longer sure if it ever actually happened, or if it was just a dream.
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I honestly don’t get why people hate Manhattan so much.
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Well, why not? When I first got into reading, I really got into it. Depending on the length, and how much homework I had, I could read a novel in between one and three days. In a whole summer, read almost the entire teen section in my local library. Minus the manga area, because you […]
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I guess I’ve been labeled the artsy kid since I was a child. While the majority of my siblings showed interest in sports, I enjoyed dance and writing.
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Hi Amanda. Things are probably normal for you right now, considering you’re going into the fifth grade in a little over a month. You think you’ve found your people and your place, but I’ve got something to tell you: you are so wrong.
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My life is very routine, so it isn’t very often when I come across new places, but when I do get the chance to visit a new place, I make myself out to be the ultimate tourist.
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The smallest things in life make me want to believe in magic. That might sound like bullshit, but I kid you not. There are just some things that I come across that make me think, this is it. Some things just click for us, and we take a second (whether it be in that moment, or afterwards), to think about the best things in life. Why do we go through tough times, even when it feels like they’ll never end?
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2017 has been an interesting year so far, to say the least. For one thing, it’s been flying right before my very eyes. I’ve been told that as you get older, the years seem to get shorter. Whoever told me that (sorry, I can’t remember who did) was so right.
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