Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. First off, I need to vent that I do not have a dog. Thus, Toto, in this piece, is completely metaphorical. Lack of dog aside, I’m feeling […]
Transition My world this past year has been steeped in the word transition. Everything has been about transition and restructuring. I transitioned from East Coast to West Coast. I transition into a new position back in February and am about to do so again in a week. […]
Memories of Memory I am one of those people that isn’t technically an only child but pretty much grew up as one for a grand chunk of my formative time. See, I am 9 years older than my sister. Thus growing up, I always was at […]
This year the word of the year was an emoji and apparently cool things are now referred to as being “on fleek“. According to some 2015 retrospective lists “hella” is a popular term and believe me I hear it every day in my office. But I […]
Back in the mid 2000s, the documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who rose rapidly in fame due to “Super-Size Me”, created a show named 30 Days in which they filmed a person living in someone else’s shoes for 30 days. It was meant to be provocative and more intelligent […]
It was time to get lucky. She could feel it. She knew she should head to the liquor store and get a scratcher. All signs were pointing to things turning around. The doctor said her mom would recover. Her daughter’s grades had improved markedly. Sometimes things just had […]
I grew up in a superstitious Hispanic family that just dreaded Friday the 13th. We tended to avoid going anywhere on such a day. Then I grew up. And guess what. I still dread Friday the 13th. My beloved most awesome dog died on a Friday the 13th. […]
I was just in the shower when I was humming The Cure’s most horrific, banal song “It’s Friday I’m in love.” How did the Cure go from goth to sap? Mind boggling. Anyway, once I noticed I was humming that I tried to change my ear worm. Then […]
At the end of each year, I look forward to the year-end reviews, lists and retrospectives. It’s silly but I enjoy going down short-term memory lane. One thing that I look forward to is the selection of the Time Person of the Year as well as the selection […]
Once upon a time she lived in a bubble. Not a warm, fuzzy bubble like a Mayberry town. Once upon a time she lived in a dark, suffocating bubble that seemed like it would burst at any point. The temperature ran hot inside that bubble leaving one’s skin […]
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