The Silver Needle

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About

Welcome to the Silver Needle! Here are the columns we have:

• About — Facts about the Silver Needle and its columnists.
• Humor — Fun jokes, funny articles or stories, and cartoons. Sure to make you laugh!
• Media and Arts — Analysis of books, songs, musicals, movies, and poetry; as well as dances, paintings, photography, and other art forms.
• Science and Technology — Latest cutting edge technology, fun science facts, and more!
• Cooking and Baking — Recipes for all types of foods, latest food fads, and helpful cooking and baking tips.
• Puzzles — Codes, word searches, crosswords, etc.
• Nature — Articles on animals, plants, trees, and all things involved in nature pretty much. Photography of nature is also allowed.
• Ask Papa — One of our papa’s answering questions given by our columnists, friends, family, and readers.

The name of this magazine is inspired by silver needle tea, made from a tea leaf native only to the Hunan, China area. The logo for the Silver Needle is a photo of silver needle tea leaves.

Columnists

The Silver Needle is a magazine run by a group of TCKs (Third Culture Kids) and other awesome kids–with help from their dads–living all over the world. Here are our columnists:

• Aaron Shey – Senior Editor and Science & Technology columnist
  Age: 14
  Hobbies: Pophead, gamer, writer, spy, techie.
• Elizabeth Webel – Media & Arts columnist
  Age: 14
  Hobbies: Reading, playing djembe, making soap, hanging out with friends, and contemplating paradoxes.
• Steve Webel – Ask Papa columnist
  Age: old as dirt
  Hobbies: Photography, YouTube,  and roasting coffee beans.
• Anna Webel – Cooking & Baking, Humor, and Nature columnist
  Age: 13
  Hobbies: YouTuber, reading, playing ukulele, photography, biking, baking and cooking, crafting, FaceTiming her BFF, playing basketball, and sketching
• Agent 529 (female) – Nature columnist
  Age: 11
  Hobbies: Football (American), baseball, swimming, football (american), photography, and minecraft.
• Micah Gebert – Media & Arts columnist
  Age: 12
  Hobbies: Baking, sketching, reading, photography, track, playing basketball, biking, gym, netball, baseball, soccer, singing, guitar, FaceTiming her BFF, and YouTuber.
• Emma Carollo – Humor columnist
  Age: 14
  Hobbies: Texting, knitting, working out, reading, and writing.
• Samatha Carollo – Humor and Puzzles columnist
  Age: 12
  Hobbies: Sketching, reading, playing action games, anything to do with cats, computer programming, and animation.
• Treeluv Stone (female) – Nature and Media & Arts columnist
  Age: 14
  Hobbies: writing, dog stuff, eating, sleeping, listening to music, and Harry Potter fan
• Drittenstorm (male) – Nature columnist
  Age: 12
  Hobbies: Reading, writing, drawing, and painting.
• Kiah Long – Puzzles columnist
  Age: 9
  Hobbies:
• Asah Long – Science and Technology columnist
  Age: 11
  Hobbies: LEGOs, planes, and building.
• Josiah Long – Humor columnist
  Age: 13
  Hobbies: Pokémon, reading, video games, eating, sleeping, getting up cheerfully in the morning (NOT), listening to music, fiddling with computers, cat stuff, imagining stuff, and other things that he can’t mention without getting abducted by aliens–oh wait nope, he said too much, there he goes…
• Ryan Dahly from Escaping Crime – Media & Arts columnist
  Age: Not Given
  Hobbies: Not Given
• Celyya Clay – Cooking & Baking columnist
  Age: 14
  Hobbies: Tree-climbing, Rollerblading, and flute
• Will Shadow – Puzzles columnist
  Age: 16
  Hobbies: Technology, stalking, puzzles, and having fun

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