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The real tragedy of the person who dumps on you is that you pay twice. The second time is when you get bent out of shape trying to get even. – Source.
“Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” – Joan Didion
This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country. The San Bernardino Valley lies only an houreast of Los Angeles by way of the San Bernardino Freeway but is in certain ways an alien place: not the coastal the California ofsubtropical twilights and the soft westerlies off the...
Are You Allowed To Have Nice Things When You’re Unemployed?
The first time I stepped into an unemployment benefits claims office was about this time last year. I was wearing a linen Banana Republic suit, matching silk navy lace Banana Republic blouse, Michele Deco watch, David Yurman bracelet and a Michael Kors tote and admittedly did not look the part. I was fresh out...
Crying at the Office
I recently had the privilege of watching a screening of “Zero Dark Thirty,” a “powerhouse thriller” that focus on the black ops mission to capture kill Osama bin Laden. The film was unapologetic in its honesty: the opening scene depicts the brutalities of torture and continues on to document the lengthy research process to find the...
It’s Been A Long Time Since My Last Update
I’ve been taking care of the big (and medium, and small) things. — “A professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the...
Perfect Timing
I’m a sucker for remembering dates when “bad” things happened to me and internalizing those feelings, often fearing another event just as “bad” to happen again in the same time frame. I use “bad” in quotations because everything has somehow worked out beautifully thus far, and hopefully will continue to. Coincidentally, when said feelings...
Millennial GIRLS
“I don’t even know what I want. Sometimes I just wish someone would tell me, like, ‘This is how the rest of your life should look.’” “I’m an individual, and I feel how I feel when I feel it.” “You look thirty.” “I don’t know where we live, I don’t know your address.” “Life...
