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Gabrielle Lamontagne
Bio
As a travel-sized, karaoke fiend and Christian witch, I hope you find my spiritual insights and travel experiences useful, amusing, and compassionately written!
Stories (26/0)
Finally Farewell
Dear Donald Trump, As a modern pop-culture icon, you disappointed me in how you represented our "Great" nation. Growing up, I learned that America was Beautiful because it was the land of the free and the home of the brave. Not just the brave soldiers who fight to keep us free, but the home of the many different shades of bravery - from the LGBTQ+ community to those still suffering from the lasting effects of outdated prejudices. The way you abused your freedom of speech to cause dissention and revel in hatred between the many different peoples pursuing happiness in America causes me pain. I am angry.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne3 years ago in The Swamp
Freckles Abroad
It has been a weirdly eventful year, considering all the quarantines. For me, the most exciting half has been this last one. True, I haven't left my “flat” much in the past few months, but I've made a slew of new friends and I've already seen more of London than I knew existed.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in Wander
Freckles Abroad
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere I go! Especially on campus. Not the white kind, though, as it rarely snows here. One of my friends told me that “a lot” of snow here is about an inch of accumulation. That made me laugh, thinking back to winters in New Hampshire.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in Wander
Freckles Abroad
Lately, I've been taking time each day to count my blessings. Not only do I have an amazing support network of family and friends, but I have been blessed with this opportunity to live and study so far from home – especially during a global pandemic. Each day in London is beautiful in a new way – even when I don't leave my room for more than a half hour walk. Being here and spending so much time reading and writing truly makes me feel happy.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in Wander
Freckles Abroad
I am excited to announce that I'm loving my classes! That's probably not a huge surprise, considering I'm well known for my love of reading, discussing literature, and writing. Still, it's reassuring to know that I picked the right field of study.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in Wander
Freckles Abroad
Johnny Cash and I finally have something in common. After several days in self-isolation, I found myself watching the cars go by outside the gate of Old Court courtyard from the hall window and wondering, will I ever be free again? It really brought home “Folsom Prison Blues”. I spent a lot of time fluctuating between reading Two Towers, reading ahead of classes, writing, watching television, and playing games on my phone. My body became so annoyed at the sitting position, that I spent a few hours dancing around my room to a Spotify playlist. Even with all these activities to keep me busy, the cabin fever was creeping into my soul.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in Wander
Freckles Abroad
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” - Saint Augustine Those of you who know me, know I'll be spending a year in London and that I intend to spend my time wisely in the UK, studying and traveling. Adventuring, if you will. In fact, my adventures have already begun.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in Wander
Power
Dear World Leaders, There was a steaming pile of negative feedback about Greta Thunberg’s speech at the UN Climate Action Summit just after the fact. She’s been criticized for criticizing adults with secondary educations in: how to interact with other people (politics), how to take care of the environment (environmental scientists), and how financial systems work (economy), among others. No one likes to hear that they are failing, that’s part of being human. To err, though, is also human. True failure is not learning from those mistakes and improving upon them. That is why this 16-year-old woman chose to speak at such an important global event. She’s giving those of us who can already do so much more to alter the state of the world the chance to do so – a second chance. Perhaps the last one we will ever receive. As she says, “if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.”
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in The Swamp
Try A Little Tenderness
Romance novelists and most of my female friends seem to think that the most enjoyable way of achieving orgasm for a woman is to have a man stick his tongue into her vagina and wiggle it around until he hits the right nerves a few times. Obviously, that’s not how they would describe it, but that’s generally the real-life version. For me, it’s much too messy.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne4 years ago in Filthy
Black and Tans
Black and Tans are a popular drink in the United States and a personal favorite of mine, though in the end I prefer a pint of Guinness on its own. There’s a fun Irish-style band, one of my favorites, named Gaelic Storm, which sings a song about being a modern Irish-American descendant in the United States called “Raised on Black and Tans”.
By Gabrielle Lamontagne5 years ago in Proof
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