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Willie Nelson said, “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”

Both positive and negative things happen every day. It’s a part of life. But why, as humans, do we focus so intently on the bad things that happened during the day instead of the hundred little good things? Most people harbor the mistakes and regrets of their past more than enjoying the moment instead. We’re all guilty of this.

Don’t misunderstand us, we’re not naïve. News isn’t always good. And the purpose of this blog is not to keep you in the dark, thinking we live in a land filled with only rainbows and ponies. The negative is a part of life. But it seems we sometimes forget that the positive is a part of life too. You can hear negative news anywhere, whether on your local television station or through a friend’s gossip. While the negative news seems to greatly overpower the positive, this is not true. The negative news is just, for some reason, reported on more often.

So, we, Monica Drake and Kristy Lapanowski, decided to make this blog, under the alias of “Miss Inspire,” to bring a little bit of “rainbows and ponies” into people’s lives to counteract with the prevalent “black holes” served to us by the rest of the media. The media does a good job at extensively covering the negative aspects of the world. So, we took it upon ourselves to cover the happy and inspirational news. Every Monday and Friday, we’ll give you a dose of “warm-fuzzies,” a feeling you might not have realized the news was possible to give.


About the bloggers:
Monica Drake is 21 years old and currently a senior journalism major with a minor in psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She interns for the Oakland Post, the campus newspaper, and has previously interned at the Lake Orion Review (Lake Orion's community newspaper) and Tschetter and Associates (a public relations company for hospitals). Her favorite books are The Host by Stephenie Meyer and Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks.

Kristy Lapanowski is 21 years old and a senior at Oakland University. She is a communications major, interested in journalism work. She is currently an intern at the Oakland Post and is public relations co-chair for the sorority Phi Sigma Sigma. Her three favorite things are: iced coffee, her blackberry, and hockey.