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Happy 100
Without my grandmother, I never would have learned common Italian phrases such as: “Is that all you’re gonna eat?” “Eat, eat. You’re wasting away to nothing.”...
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Room For Four More
It was my parents’ 17th anniversary, a night for outward ‘I-love-you’s and inward ‘what-was-I-thinking’s. These anniversary dinners out as a family were standard: eat something expensive, maybe have...
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New Post at Tipsy Lit
Ericka and the rest of the staff over at Tipsy Lit were kind enough to publish another piece of mine. The great thing about posting on someone else’s blog is that the lawsuits regarding plagiarism...
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Hip To Be …–.- ..- .- .-. .
Sometimes ironic, sometimes retro-chic, hipsters are the compass that points our culture toward cool. The horn rimmed glasses and skinny jeans have almost become the uniform of the mainstream, wanna-be...
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Put away your black armbands, everyone. I am not dead. In fact, I have been relatively alive this entire time… just not online. As it turns out, real life has been/is far more interesting and fun than...
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Summertime Captions For Awful People
Today is the first day of Autumn. This means it is time to say goodbye to Summer. It is time to realize that we can do better than Summer. For some of us, perhaps it’s time to pretend we never even met...
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Halloween Costumes Of Old – When Less Was More… More or Less
“Trick or treat!” “Boo!” “That’s scary!” “I got a rock.” Such phrases have become synonymous with Halloween. Halloween itself has become a billion dollar industry with super stores popping up in...
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Come, Meet The Family
As with every holiday, there are some events that have themselves gone on to become traditions. Things that, if they ceased to exist, would devastate the hearts of families around the globe. These...
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Tips For Phone Interviews
In the past, I’ve provided tips for in-person interviews. From small business to high-profile companies, these tips have resulted in several readers’ successful interviews. In other cases, these tips...
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This Birthday Memory Brought To You By Coors
For my 11th birthday, I hosted a sleepover for eight of my friends at our home in Tacoma, WA. In case any of you don’t know, sleepovers are different than slumber parties. Like, inherently different....
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Westward Ho – Part 1: Crappy Souveniers
PREFACE: Much of my childhood was spent on the road, but not in a Beatified, romantic sort of way. Instead, it was simply that we were forced to. Whether transferred, offered a better job or just...
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Westward Ho – Part 2: General Custard
<— Part 1 —-< Instead of driving west into Utah, then up to Idaho, we drove north to Montana in a spontaneous change of plans wholly inspired by a coloring book, Bucky Thompson and the Redskins....
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So… Where Was I?
My last post was April of 2015. However, after a number* of emails asking why I was not posting, how I was and other friendly reaching-out’s, I decided to return and try to engage what is undoubtedly a...
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The Tinkle Controversy
The Place: Tacoma, WA. At Idylwild Elementary, 204 was the only classroom that had its own bathroom. Believe me when I say that this was a pretty big deal. Students in other classes were forced to...
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Tips For The Modern World
Living in a modern world is not necessarily a difficult or insurmountable task. Oh sure, for folks like myself, life is simply a series of easily-achieved goals and back-to-back successes that follow...
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SHAM or How To Be Cool Like Mike
When anyone meets me for the first time, they see that my build is slight, my hair looks like a Brylcreem ad, my glasses are older than me, and I’m probably humming a song that their grandparents might...
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Pint-sized Savings
Dictated by completely unnecessary necessity, I drove to the nearby Trader Joe’s. The intended outcome was to acquire sparkling water, some butternut squash zig-zags, and a piece of fruit, thereby...
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When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be a Rerun
Throughout the history of academic-enforced writing assignments, one of the more tried and true topics doled out in elementary schools is the one that asks children what they want to be when they grow...
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Oh (Boy) Mein (Drunk) Papa
For my 11th birthday, I hosted a sleepover for eight of my friends at our home in Tacoma, WA. In case any of you don’t know, sleepovers are different than slumber parties. Like, inherently different....
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Disney Films For Snuffies
Originally Published on Forces of Geek. Walt Disney liked to appeal to the varying aspects of everyone’s internal self. Disneyland was built, for example, to appeal to the child in all of us. The...
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