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Holy shit, we’re grown-ups.
This New Year’s Eve, Gail and I rented a motel room in a town about an hour away, took a cab to one of the many popular casinos in the state, gambled the penny slots all night, lost more money than we...
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An Epidemic of Lost Boys
When I was 4, my brother and I bounced up and down on my mom and dad’s bed holding hands and shouting about how he was turning 8. It’s an oddly precious memory from my childhood, because it sounds...
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I was a 23-year-old divorcée.
I wrote this entry months before moving to WordPress, so very few of my 80 something followers have even seen it. It still greatly resonates with me and I find myself wanting to make the same points in...
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The Amazon in My Corner
Abigail the Passive Assertive is how she’d go down in history if passive assertive people went down in history. They don’t, but you get the point. When we met, I was the mouthy one and Gail was the...
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“Your funeral is going to suuuuuuck.”
Malik was just a friend of a friend, until one day in 10th grade, when he decided that we were close enough that he could address a nagging concern. He stomped up to my 15-year-old self, clad in red...
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Why did you marry that?!?!!?! No, seriously. I want an answer.
Every now and then, something will happen in my personal life that has me incensed. I’ll excitedly think “I’ll blog about it!” only to realize that I already have… and quite accurately at that. So here...
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“It’s just not a good fit.”
In the last couple of years, I’ve learned to deal with a lot of rejection. I coped when I didn’t pass my graduate portfolio for the first time. I’ve dealt with my mother hurling cookies at my door on...
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Growing Up Professional: Mistakes I Can’t Believe I’ve Actually Made in Job...
So, yesterday I had a job interview. It was sort of a big deal. My best friend was positively useless. Me: I don’t think I could be more prepared for this interview, but I’m terrified they’ll ask some...
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Big Girl(?) Woes
You know, for someone who doesn’t make a dime off her blog, I’m incredibly reliable, fueled only by your follows, likes, and comments. Maybe it’s because I think too much and without some kind of...
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Staring Down the Barrel of 30… at 27?
Me: “He’s 29 years old, lives with his mother, and plays video games all day. He is staring down the barrel of 30 and has nothing to show for it.” Gail: “Wooooow. That is a really unhealthy way to...
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Blogiversary Number Three!
The trouble with my blogiversary is that it’s actually on my birthday… … not that my dad remembers when that is. After I sent the “what’s up?” text, I checked my voicemail to receive his happy birthday...
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A Lot Can Happen in Ten Years: February 17th, 2011
February 17th, 2011 was a Thursday… three days after Valentine’s Day and four days after the one year anniversary of the death of a baby I loved. I was 23 years old and living in a mostly empty...
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The Minivan Stigma
It’s been a big year, y’all. Jake and I celebrated five years of marriage, continued the adventure of raising our IVF-conceived twin girls, and began planning an embryo transfer in hopes of growing...
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Another Birthday and Another Blogiversary
You know that feeling, when you meet someone who shares the same birthday as you? It feels like the sweetest little coincidence, assuming it’s someone you like. Well, a friend just sent me a graphic...
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