The past few months I have gotten into making press-on nails! I was inspired by my friend at school because she also makes her own press-on nails. Making my own nails has saved me a BUNCH of money because all the supplies were roughly $50 and a professional set is roughly $60. So, I am … Continue reading “Nails”
Written by Olivia Ford
I’m just about one month away from my black belt test!! I genuinely can’t believe how far I’ve come on this journey. I hit my one year mark a few days ago, which was absolutely surreal. When you first start the test, 13 months sounds like a lot, but you don’t realize just how long … Continue reading “One Month Left”
Written by Avi Martens
My karate journey started when I was 7 years old. My brother had joined 9 months prior and was actually the reason I joined in the first place; unfortunately, we had to quit not even a year later. But in 2019, about a year and a half after we quit, my brother started back up … Continue reading “My Karate History”
Written by Elinor Silack
This past July I injured my thumb while sparring in class. About 2 years ago I broke the same thumb at a tournament, so I was very worried this would affect my test. After going to the doctor and getting an x-ray I found out that it was not broken and would most likely heal … Continue reading “Injury”
Written by Olivia Ford
It’s my senior year of high school! I’m about a week into the school year so I thought that I would write about my classes this year. I start my day at 7:30am with zero period AFJROTC. In this zero period we train for the many events that we have throughout the year, more specifically … Continue reading “Senior Year!”
Written by Avi Martens
Most people in my day-to-day life don’t know this, but these past few years I’ve been having fairly bad joint issues. I’ve been hypermobile all my life. I’ve got bendy fingers; my shoulders are so flexible that the Americana shoulder lock doesn’t even work, my knees are almost always locked when I’m standing ( and … Continue reading “Joint Issues”
Written by Avi Martens
First week of junior year done! I’ve got a super packed schedule this year with work, karate, school, and fitting my numbers in, so my weekdays are super crazy. Luckily, this past week was all about planning and making schedules so I can still fit in some free time (I fear I’d go crazy otherwise). … Continue reading “First Week of School”
Written by Elinor Silack
First week of senior year completed! One step closer to graduation. On the first day of school we had senior sunrise. Basically what that is, is all the seniors go to the field at 6AM to watch the sunrise together, and at the end of the year, there is senior sunset. Me personally, I think … Continue reading “First Day of School”
Written by Gail Mader
Today my husband Rich had breakfast in Knoxville with our daughter Mars & her boyfriend Logan. This is the result of years of hard work for everyone involved. Mars had misophonia as an aspect of her severe OCD, and this led to years of intense disruption to the relationship between her & her dad. Many … Continue reading “HOPE is a Four-Letter Word”
Written by Olivia Ford
Summer is officially ending so here is a recap of everything that I did during my summer break. I kicked summer off by going to Sun Splash with a few friends. A few days after that my family and I saw Toy Story 5! Toy Story was my favorite movie franchise when I was a … Continue reading “Summer Recap”
