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Jesika’s Ambition
Her daughter didn’t notice such trivial things of the working world. She believed her dreams to be bigger and better deserved, but the dreams were not her own.
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Blood, Sweat and Fears
June 2020. Bored, deep into the pandemic and with all my clients in holding patterns, I decided to do a large fabric art project I had been thinking about for years. With the aid of some grippy bottom shoes, I fell off the ladder onto the pointy tip of my elbow.
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Soulmates forever?
It’s easy to fall in love when you’re young, but with each year that passes an unfortunate thing happens. You grow up and it’s an unwelcome punch in the face that’s likely to leave permanent scars.
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How to be an Introvert: Cry
In 4th grade the teacher called on me. I didn’t raise my hand. I never raised my hand. The last thing I ever wanted was to be called on. It wasn’t that I didn’t know the answers. I did. I think my entire life would have changed if I answered those questions.
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A World on Fire
As always has been and I suppose will continue to be, someone is toasting with champagne and sleeping in soft sheets, while someone is trying to sleep and comfort their crying children in an auditorium full of people to escape bullets.
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What gives our lives weight and meaning?
The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
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The English Patient: Fantasies of Being Skinless and Being Buried Alive?
English Patient: I did not experience a love story. It was a story of pathological, sadomasochistic obsession. I could have found that interesting in a movie, but please don’t tell me that was love.
Books
Shelter. Movie Review.
At some point in our life, we need someone to believe, understand and give us shelter.
Books
Swimming In The Dark. Book Review.
Right from the start you know it’s going to hurt. There were times reading it I wanted to stop because I knew how I was going to feel at the end. But I didn’t stop. In fact, I kept putting little Post-its where I wanted to re-read certain sections.
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Body NOT found in the Kern River
I pulled a 'Without a Trace' scenario today, only I wasn’t declared missing, and my body wasn’t found two weeks later floating in the Kern River. What was I thinking?
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Father: Happy Birthday. Wish you were here.
My father was Wilson Scott. Although, named after the famous general, he was never a man of war. He and my mother were missionaries until I…