Update!

Hey guys!

If you follow me on social media, you probably saw that I posted a poll last week asking my followers to vote for the topic of my next blog post. The choices were: pineapple on pizza, ‘Body-Shaming pt. 3’, or the use of the n-word. I tallied the votes, and my next post will be on…. (*drumroll*, please) the use of the n-word! I wanted to have it posted this week, but unfortunately, despite how diligently I have been working, I am just not done. This is a very broad topic that I do not want to tread lightly on, so I am going to have it posted next week! I think that with this added time I’ll have to develop it, you guys won’t be disappointed.

Because of this setback, I have decided that I will post a piece based on the topic you guys vote on here and on social media every other week. The weeks in-between I will post either a poem or something I’ve been working on along with updates and the reveal of the upcoming blog post topic.

Since the topic of the n-word is so extensive, I will most likely make it into two parts, but there are no guarantees. So, if it is split into two separate posts, it will be two weeks before the next topic reveal & update, and three weeks before next blog post. Because I am already posting this update, I am including the topic poll, but once I get started with the routine, I will post the poll at the end of the previous blog post. Essentially, it will be a topic blog post with a poll attached, then, the next week, an update blog post with the poll winner, then, the next week, a topic blog post with the winning topic and a poll attached, and so on and so forth. I really hope this makes sense! Comment any questions you have below 🙂

Now, without further adieu, the next topic choices are:

  • Pineapple on Pizza
  • White Privilege
  • Are Beauty Pageants Objectifying Women?
  • The Great Straw Debacle (#save the sea turtles, hahaha!)
    • Comment below what topic you think I should tackle for my 3rd blog post!

Here’s a short essay I wrote in English Comp. about how I want to be remembered:

Powdered Doughnuts

If you ask my friends to describe me, they would use words like: kind, thoughtful, happy, or bubbly, while these words are true. The question was, “How do I want to be remembered?” Well, the answer is simple. I want to be remembered as someone who wrote you cards on your birthday every year, someone who always made you feel loved, someone you could always count on.

When I was a little girl, my mother would pick me up from preschool every afternoon and take me to the gas station. I thought this was simply to get my afternoon snack, but it was for her to get her daily nicotine fix. Either way, we left the store satisfied with our purchases. I would get mini powdered doughnuts (sometimes the chocolate ones, on a bad day) and Mother would get her to Doral shorts in the gold box. On the ride home, I’d ask her the same question every day: “Mama, how are these doughnuts made?” and she’d answer with a story about the doughnut makers at the doughnut factory. This was our routine. Now, Mother doesn’t smoke anymore and I’ve put my doughnut eating behind me, but those days made me who I am today.

I am someone who hates the smell of cigarette smoke and has struggled with her weight her whole life. I am someone who apologizes when an apology isn’t necessary; someone who cares enough to write you cards on your birthday and makes you feel loved. I am someone who you can count on. This is me. This is who I am, and this is how I’d like to be remembered.

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Thank you guys for being patient with me as I navigate this new world of blogging. Don’t forget to vote for the next topic! See ya next week with “The N-word: Creating a Community or Repeating a Cycle of Hate”.

Author: Maleigh Crespo

Maleigh is a senior literary and an iced coffee enthusiast. She enjoys writing nonfiction and poetry but hopes that her affliction for short fiction will one day subside. In her free time, she can be found scrolling through Pinterest or with her beloved cat, Manny.

4 thoughts on “Update!”

  1. I look forward to your next post! I think pineapple on pizza (or save the sea turtles) would be a good one haha.

  2. I loved writing this prompt in comp 1. It really forced myself to go into how I wanted people to see me. Well written!

  3. I’m very excited to read your future debates, but I really loved the powdered doughnuts story. It was very well written, and that is most definitely how I will remember my sweet Maleigh.

  4. This was very fun to read. I like how you did not just stop at an update, and you combined interesting components such as your short essay. And I also like the little bits of personality found throughout that added flavor.

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