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BIO PAGE
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BOOK REVIEW, JOSIE
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HORROR SCOPES, ERIN
ROCKY HORROR, DEVAKI SMALL BUSINESS INTERVIEW, MALIA CRAFTS, MABEL MUSOPHOBIA, GENESIS MUTATION, MORGAINE FALL FASHION, SYLVIE JUNE 29TH, JUSTICE GHOST STORIES, ALICE ALL HALLOWS EVE, JAX FALL PLAYLIST
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A SMALL BUSINESS MAKING A BIG CHANGE BY MALIA GRAYBILL Everyone loves supporting a small business. Whether you heard of them on TikTok or your local supermarket/ice cream store, it always feels nice knowing you're not buying into the big brands and supporting someone who offers a unique and special product. What's even better is a business with drive and a purpose. One that's backing something you believe in. A-line Boutique does all of this and more. Apart from selling beautiful clothes, they make their customers feel beautiful and like they’re top priority. Their mission/business model is “selling experiences and empowering women through creating community vs. simply selling product.” That's pretty amazing. As someone who struggled with body insecurity, along with many other women, it is so relieving to know that A-line is putting their female customers first. There is never a sense of shame in these boutiques if you ask for a size bigger or smaller. If you have a tenancy to start shaming yourself in dressing rooms (similarly to me), the team ensures that you are immediately comfortable and helps that negative self-talk Kelly Harrison CFO disappear. Apart from supporting women, A-line also does a lot of charity work for the Verma Foundation and Judi’s Malia: Why does A-Line support these charities? House. These places are fantastic and go hand in hand with What criteria must an organization meet to inspire Aline because they support those in our community who use charitable partnership with A-line? chemo to fight cancer and provide grief support to more than Kelly: If someone approaches with a charity or non11,000 children and caregivers. profit, we have barely ever turned everyone down, and if clients are passionate about something, we To better understand the charity side of things, I interviewed want to support them and what they’re passionate A-lines CFO Kelly Harrison. Here's how things went: about. Malia: The mission at A-line is to sell experiences Malia: From personal experience, I know A-line has supported and empower women through creating community the Matthew Morris Scholarship Fund, but beyond that, how vs. simply selling products. What does that mean to many charities does A-Line support? Is A-Line still involved you? with MMSF? Kelly: Clothing is clothing, but it’s the ability to Kelly: We still have a very close connection with MMSF. As far transform somebody to make them feel loved, as other charities go, we do donation packages for any powerful, and important that makes us unique. It’s organizations who reach out, which donation-wise are gift incredible because recently, I was with someone cards and items of clothing to bid on. We donate to Noah’s wearing A-line, and she was complimented by a Ark and Goodwill if we have extra clothing items. A more stranger, which made her day. This was so wonderful recent donation would be an extensive check to Grayland because she was going through a tough time, and Country Day School. after getting complimented, she turned to me and Malia: Out of some of your charities, which holds the most said, “ I really needed that; they just made my day.” meaning to you and why? Malia: How do you believe A-line empowers women? Kelly: One of them is dress for success because it’s for women Kelly: A-line empowers women through clothing and who can’t afford clothes, and it goes hand in hand with our community and can make a woman feel beautiful mission: empowering women through clothing. inside and out, no matter what.
We have all seen spooky stories on TV. The lights begin to flicker, and then someone is lifted into the air, possessed by a wandering spirit. We know the stories of Casper or the local tale of a haunted house in your neighborhood. Most people go their whole lives without even the slightest haunting incident. But there are those who have found themselves confronted with the paranormal. Maybe they are lucky...or unlucky, depending on how you think of it. Maybe they have stronger spiritual connections than others, or perhaps they are hand-picked by the spirits for a slight glimpse at what comes after our hearts stop. Michael Kratzer is one of these people. He says he inherited his connection to the spirits from his mother. Ever since he felt the presence of his dead aunt when he was very young, he has felt close to the unknown, and never more apparent than on his class trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. Greyfriars Kirkyard is renowned for being the most haunted graveyard in the world. Michael didn't think much of it when his class decided to go on their ghost tour. Ghost tours have the same appeal as haunted houses in the fall. It's fun to be scared; let your imagination
run wild for a while with the possibility of a potential ghost sighting. For his classmates, it was just that, fun. But for Michael, it was real. The tour's final stop was a crumbling mausoleum in a blockedoff part of the graveyard. It was the lone building still standing in the vast field of disintegrating graves. Michael knew something was off the second he stepped foot in the sight. "I felt like I was not so much being watched as I was being perceived," he said, describing how he felt while entering. This was the mass grave of a family brutally disrupted by an outsider over 100 years ago. The story goes there once was a man running from the police. In an attempt to evade them, He busted into the graveyard and hid in the first tomb he could find.
What he didn't know, however, was that he met a fate worse than prison in choosing this specific grave. Instead of burying their dead individually, this unknown family placed all the bodies together in a hole inside the tomb. With one wrong step, the man fell through the rotting floor, landing on a pile of bones and never getting out. Of course, it's natural to feel creeped out; he was on a ghost tour after all, but he says the longer he stayed in the tomb, the worse he felt: "By the end, I was basically grabbing onto my two friends being held up." He felt the worst in the right corner of the tomb; he could feel it in his gut. That corner had a bad vibe surrounding it. The next day, when he was looking back at his photos reflecting from the night, that same corner caught his attention again; there was a small white circle hovering just above the ground. There is a theory in the ghost-hunting community that spirits can be seen in flash photography as floating orbs of light, almost like a sunspot in places where the sun never hits. Michael is convinced he felt uneasy because he could sense the spirit in the grave, activating his fight or flight. "I think it was a mix of the bad spirit and the overwhelming feeling of being in a condensed space with it that manifested in a physical reaction."
When I asked Michele what he thought a ghost was or why they stuck around, his answer stemmed from his spiritual background and knowledge of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics Energy cannot be created or destroyed. "When we die, where does the brain's energy go?" Michael asks. "I think the ghosts are less people than pieces of someone who has passed on. When they are in emotionally charged moments, a lot of energy is created in that space. I think parts of them get stuck in that pocket. There will always be a piece of their soul trying to find peace." Even though most people don't connect with energy as profoundly as Michael, we still pick up on emotions tied to an area. Maybe it's a sinking feeling when you suspect you will get bad news at work or the ambiance of your favorite restaurant. People connect to the energy around them. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, there is no doubt that the tomb fostered a traumatic energy. There was so much fear and death in that small space. Is it truly crazy to think some of that may have stuck around? I don't know. We may never be able to answer whether ghosts are real, but that adds to the thrill of the paranormal; after all, it is a spooky season.