With Thanksgiving just passed and the holidays on its way it’s always a good idea to put things in perspective. If you get enough time to peal yourself away from blogs about sneakers, clothes, parties, celebrity gossip, etc. then check out livesstrong.blogspot.com. A 15-yr-old girl who calls herself Sunshine, living in Northern Iraq, writes about the struggles of studying for her biology test over loud gunfire, overload in homework due to the school starting late because of violence, dinner table conversations about murder, rape, and being burned alive…At times the entries are written very matter-of-factly and at other times it’s written with a hyperawareness, which is typical of a teenager’sduality. It really gives a different insight to what you may read or see on television about the situation in Iraq.