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(03/30/14 3:30pm)
I'm an adventurous chef, but I like to stick to a recipe. I'm not great at just throwing things together from memory or imagination. That's why I love Pinterest. I spend the majority of my free time browsing the "Food and Drinks" category for anything that catches my eye, whether it's homemade sushi, frozen Greek yogurt or a variety of desserts that utilize the phenomenon that is dark chocolate. However, I recently found a recipe that blew my taste buds out of the water. Its name intimidated me at first, but I decided to brave the task and try it out for my boyfriend's birthday dinner. This Cajun Conecuh Sausage, shrimp and quinoa casserole was dynamite and easy to make, and I can't wait to make it again. I got it from a blog called This Gal Cooks, and the original recipe doesn't call for Conecuh sausage, but, hey, what's a Cajun meal without Conecuh sausage? Plus, it's one of my boyfriend's favorite foods, and it transformed the flavors of this dish. Anyone with an appreciation for Cajun cuisine and healthy-spins on meals will love this recipe as much as I do. Also, if you're not fan of quinoa, you can sub the quinoa with brown rice. Nutritional content: Calorie content for 4 large (approximately 1.5 C) servings is around 410 calories per serving. For 6 (approximately 1 C) small servings, the calorie count is about 270 calories per serving.
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(03/20/14 3:30pm)
Tangela Johnson isn't fond of handshakes.
She'll slap that outreached hand away almost as though she was offended. However, she is a hugger. She will smile widely and insist on a hug. Her embrace is short-lived, but its warmth lingers.
In her living room, dozens of framed photographs portraying her loved ones--children, grandchildren, extended family and friends--smile up at the onlooker.
Her trophies, her most treasured possessions, are the memories tied to them.
Even though she's living in subsidized housing, Johnson considers herself the richest she's ever been, and those photographs are proof she's right.
However, Johnson hasn't always been so opulent.
While growing up in Detroit, Mich., Johnson endured hardships.
At age 4, she was molested.
Fourteen years later, she was raped.
At 20, while "feeding off of the depression (she) was already in and trying to hide those secrets," she propelled herself into an emotionally, physically and verbally abusive marriage.
At a time in a young woman's life when she is flooded with opportunity and optimism, Johnson found herself spiraling into a life-threatening depression. She was a victim, and she knew it. Even worse, she believed that was all she could be.
"Is this me?," Johnson said looking down at the floor ashamedly.
"Is this all that I have? Is this what my life is about? I just kinda gave in to that. I felt like I didn't have anywhere else to go in my life."
"You can't feel sorry for yourself, and I found myself doing that. That was not me. That was not the woman God wanted me to be. I couldn't see myself being the victim all my life."
Had Johnson continued to victimize herself, her story may have ended there.
However, she took hold of her own fate the day she decided to leave Detroit, move herself and her family to Auburn and write her story down on paper.
"After everything I went through, God got me through it," Johnson said. "I'm here, and I'm here for a reason. It didn't kill me. It made me stronger, even though I gave up many times."
What started off as a self-medicating diary metamorphosed 12 years later into a self-published autobiography titled "Can a Storm be Weathered? Memoirs of a Broken Past." Going by the pen name Ta'Ressa, Johnson wrote about her life experiences, and she spared no details.
Ta'Ressa told Johnson's story and gave a needed voice to free herself of her past.
"I had to take things in my own hands and put it out there," Johnson said. "My book is basically about secrets--secrets we hold in our families--and that doesn't do anything but torment you.
"You hold that secret in so that your family doesn't get overwhelmed or embarrassed, but what about how you feel? My thing was to let my secret out. So, I let my secret out."
By releasing her secrets, this novel served as Johnson's agent to empower women in her neighborhood to come forward about their own abusive pasts and catalyze their recoveries.
Through her testimony, Johnson ministered inspiration and encouragement to those in similar situations.
"My book is [here] to let people know you don't have to stay where you are in life," Johnson said. "A lot of people like to carry their past with them, and they feed off of it, and it becomes a tool that they use to gather sympathy.
"Well, you ought to be saying, 'I'm a victor. I've got a testimony. This is where I came from.' I refuse to be broken, and you can always move forward."
(03/17/14 7:09pm)
Today, the majority of our social interaction happens online through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs and even online dating websites.
So, why should shopping be any exception? In a time where we seclude ourselves with our smartphones and computer screens, online shopping is a rising trend.
Clothing and fashion stores around Auburn aren't naive to this modern shopping style. Many shops in the downtown area direct most of their consumers' attention to their respective websites, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds and Instagram accounts.
And even though most of these stores and boutiques are in walking distance of campus, students and Auburn residents still choose to shop from the comfort of their own homes.
Gwen Baer, senior in public relations and marketing and public relations intern at Ellie clothing boutique, said Ellie customers choose to shop online because of the personable relationship she and her coworkers have instituted through their store's Internet persona.
Since the store's re-launching of its website last fall, Baer said they have added their own personal touch to their customers' online shopping experience.
"When we ship out clothes on the website, we include a personal handwritten note and wrap it (ourselves)," Baer said. "The whole point about it being Ellie is that we're all friends, and we want to treat people that way, on the website like we do in the store."
Almost all of the smaller boutiques around the main campus, including Therapy and Private Gallery, have various social media accounts to try to build a similarly personal relationship with their followers like they do with their in-store customers.
Although it stems from a larger, worldwide company, the Gap store is no exception from this style of business.
Dee Darden, assistant store manager at Gap, said most people come into this store to shop, but that she and her coworkers encourage people to visit their Facebook page and Twitter feed.
"We try to post our daily deals so that people know what's going on in the store from wherever they are," Darden said. "We use social media mostly to get those [in-store deals and promotions] out to the public."
Others stores, such as Behind the Glass, don't have a website, but that doesn't keep people from shopping their wide selection of clothing and accessories in the store.
We live in an age where social media is a key tool for communication. We follow, share, re-tweet, favorite, like, poke and direct message, and the stores around downtown Auburn are jumping on the bandwagon.
With strong, personal online interactions that mirror their equally personal in-store experience, it's no surprise that online shopping is on the rise on the Plains.
(02/05/14 7:25am)
It wasn't until the credits started rolling that I fully realized what I had just experienced. It was a revolutionary film, one that defied everything its predecessors valued.
I grew up in an age where young girls expected to sit around and wait for their charming princes to show up at the most opportune moment and rescue them from their lackluster lives, like Rapunzel being rescued from her tower and evil maternal impersonator, or Ariel abandoning her underwater kingdom at 16 to follow the first male biped she saw.
I started to think Disney movies would always portray its female protagonists as helpless damsels in distress who could only find happiness and true love by being rescued by the first man they laid eyes on, who also happened to be a dapper, young prince. However, Frozen opened my eyes to an entirely new kind of Disney movie on the rise, where women are able to take care of themselves.
Gasp. I know. What a notion! A young princess whose search for true love ends with her love for her sister and not for a studly young prince.
Who would have thought Disney would stray so far from what Walt started back in 1937 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and end up with movies such as The Princess and the Frog, which not only starred Disney's first African American protagonist, but also embraced the importance of hard work to make your own dreams come true instead of wishing on stars; Brave, in which a young princess who refuses to give in to the pressure of getting married at a young age just to appease an outdated tradition and whose quest for true love and understanding ends up being a perilous adventure to mend her relationship with her mother; and, lastly, Tangled, a fairy tale of Rapunzel being locked away in a tower not to be rescued by a prince, but by a thief who turns good as a result of his love for the young maiden changing his outlook on life.
Frozen explored an entirely new kind of true love and even poked fun at the idea of a princess getting engaged to a man after knowing him for virtually no time at all. It was modern and realistic, at least as realistic as Disney movies can be.
Sure, there's no way a snowman named Olaf aching for life in the sun could be real, or an innocent princess could be plagued by an icy gift disguised as a curse that feeds on fear, but it is realistic for two young sisters to fight for their love for one another and focus on that relationship above all else.
This set a precedent for future Disney fairy tale films. We've outgrown the stories of teenage princesses being swept off their feet by the first man each of them came across, and we've entered a genre of Disney where the princesses can rescue themselves and having a handsome prince on their arms is just an added bonus.
(07/27/12 3:15pm)
My name is Anna Claire Conrad, and I have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; or, at least that's what my doctor says.
(07/15/12 5:51pm)
New ownership has brought about a new aesthetically pleasing look for the Auburn University Club located on Yarbrough Farms Boulevard just past the intersection at Shug Jordan Parkway and North Donahue Drive.
(07/12/12 12:44pm)
"Dalta had the heart of a lion, and her fiery spirit ignited mine whenever I was in her midst," said Daniel Barnes, cadet in the United States Air Force ROTC at Auburn University in a letter to the Garrett family.
(06/21/12 10:00am)
Most Auburn University students have a strong work ethic and treat their classes like a job. Luckily, working is required for this same majority to graduate from their college with an Auburn diploma.
(06/14/12 10:00am)
The events that unfolded Saturday at University Heights on West Longleaf Drive were shocking, confusing and heartbreaking.
(06/07/12 10:00am)
Just in case you haven't seen the memes trending on Facebook and Twitter or haven't kept up with national news lately, it looks as though we might have a zombie apocalypse on our hands.
(05/31/12 10:00am)
The recent fitness sensation CrossFit isn't just a popular sport frequently featured on ESPN. It has quickly made its way to our rural college town.
(05/30/12 2:17am)
The special election for the increase and renewal of the fire fee in Lee County was held today, May 29, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the town hall in Loachapoka. By 7:30 p.m., the ballots were counted, and the results were posted on the town hall's front door. The Southwest Lee County Fire Protection Authority can rest easy. The vote passed.
(05/24/12 10:03am)
Auburn's student-run radio station, WEGL 91.1 FM, was forced to take a brief hiatus due to a lightning strike two weeks ago.
(05/24/12 10:00am)
On May 29, residents of Lee County have the chance to increase and renew the fire fee set to expire in August 2013.
(04/27/12 2:31am)
Early this morning, John McCrary, freshman in pre civil engineering, was assaulted off campus on West Magnolia Avenue.
According to the victim's friend Austin Matheny, McCrary was escorting three women to the Night Transit around 3 a.m. when he was harassed by three passersby.
Matheny said these men proceeded to physically assault McCrary in front of the women.
After police arrived at the scene of the crime, McCrary was transported to St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham where he is currently recovering in the intensive care unit.
McCrary's injuries and physical state remain unknown.
Auburn Police Capt. Tom Stofer said an assault report was taken on site.
Stofer also said he is not at liberty to release any other information pertaining to this incident because the case is currently under investigation.
More information concerning this investigation will be released when it is made available.
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