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I have a work event tonight. You hear that phrase often in adult life: We were at this “work event” or I have a “client dinner” or it was a “business function”. People who aren’t assholes tend to keep it professionally vague. People who are assholes add fun details like, we were at this work event at THE RITZ or I have a client dinner …
Today, a Sudanese fable: Ebok and his wife had fallen on hard times. Drought set in after a season of poor-selling, meager crops. Their children, now school aged, had no shoes to carry them to school. They were beginning to go hungry. Every night Ebok prayed to God for a miracle. He prayed for God to send something to save his family. One night – …
I decided I was being a closed minded bitch. A second date was only fair and totally harmless (see Post Date Date Post below). It bears mentioning that he exhibited flawless post-first-date follow up. Also my 19 year old sister said, “What is wrong with you? Do you think you’re easy to understand after 2 hours – because you’re not.” Harsh, but valid. Today we’re …
When I was a freshman in high school the former Marlboro Man came to give an assembly on not smoking. A few things stick out in my mind about that day. First the guy had the voice of Harvey Fierstein, skin like a leather couch, and a gut like Peter from Family Guy. As such I have never been a smoker. Second I was carrying …
I realized last night that I do a strange thing when I’m trying to get to know someone. I imagine them in all sorts of random life occurrences as if they’re some character in a series of young adult books: Guy Goes to the Beach, or Guy Takes a Road Trip, or the more telling Guy Attends a Funeral. I take what I know about …
I have decided, very firmly, that I want to be a writer, so now I think it makes sense to move to Italy for 6-9 months, around September. Yes, it’s sometimes exhausting to be me. I will explain and, in doing so, hopefully touch on themes ripe for us all. I acknowledge these themes may only apply to my crazy mind, but humor me and …
I don’t really have any girl drama to rant about. I’ll leave most of the relationship nonsense to Jessie for now, interjecting here and there when I’ve got something worthwhile to say. Which is rare anyway, so don’t hold your breath. I do have to agree that reading a book has somehow become next to impossible somehow. Actually that isn’t true. Recently I finished one. …
To pick up where we left off: The books is the 12 and the hooking up is the 3. I’ll explain since this is a blog. It is very, very hard to read any more than 10 pages of a book without falling asleep after a long day of work. Also, many books are very boring. Still, I’m very committed because reading is extremely important …
My “The New Year” rant was referenced several times in “the old year”. Here is it – abridged because I have to add my “the new year resolution” rant to it and don’t want to alienate readers this early in the new year, as a point of resolution. Leading up to the turn of the year you hear, no less than twice a day, something …