The folk ballad “Independence Day” was released by Martina McBride. Written by Gretchen Peters, this narrative song tells the tale of an abused wife in desperate circumstances from the vantage point of her eight year old daughter. It has become the anthem for marginalized women everywhere, containing powerful words strung together with the greatest use of metaphors I’ve …
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>Finally, my first collage work
> You’ll see Warhol-style simplicity, some amazing phrases I found in books, a b & w photocopy of an old movie star posing with confidence and astarlet in her bo-peep cutesy dress, ribbon and curls gazing up at him adoringly. Finally, if you look close enough at the words in the woven section across the …