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The artist turned away from me as his voice went to ice water. “Ah. Yeah. Well, I can’t have a person who’s uptight. I need a free spirit. So, if you’re uptight, that kind of person….” He shrugged. My potential escape from the grayness and disappointment of every day was evaporating before my eyes. The […]
It was dark in the farmhouse as my hiking boots crunched through snow up to the door. I stood there without knocking. A single pair of headlights flashed over to my left and disappeared, the only car that had passed since I’d pulled over and parked off the side of the road. The whoosh of […]
You could find cars in the average junkyard that were nicer than the beaters parked in my family’s driveway growing up. There was the time my grandfather, for reasons unknown, removed the front passenger seat from my mother’s almost-antique Mustang. I loved it, because it revealed a rusted-out hole in the floor and we could […]
The small town kid works her tail off to get into the right school. Her newfound connections combine with talent and ambition and propel her like rocket fuel to the top of the world, where she enjoys a wildly successful career and a joyful family life. Of course she has all the resources and funds […]
I am not a trust-no-one, assume-all-risk-yourself DIY’er. I believe in the social safety net. I have lobbied to expand the social safety net. Never once did I think I would be the one to need the social safety net. That was before I got hog-tied by the pink slip goat rodeo and there I was, […]
“You’re part of the core team,” the boss declared that day over sushi rolls. “You, me, Jack and Joe. If everything takes a downturn, we’re the people that stay.” Seeing my startled face, he added, “I don’t see anything coming right now. But in my position, you have to think like that.” Cue to six […]