“I feel like we’re Indiana Jones right now,” I said to my husband on our first night in Vietnam. “We grabbed the treasure and now the boulder is chasing us. But we’ll get out unscathed, just like Indy did.” He laughed and agreed. Only a couple days previous, we made the decision to continue with…
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The following is a fictional short story (though reflective of many realities) that I’ve written as a bit of a distraction from the editing work I’m doing on my novel. It feels great to post something again after so long! Please share your thoughts if you feel so inclined. And thanks for reading. My bum…
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Hello, I wanted to let you all know that though my blog is on hold, my attention has been diverted to another writing project at this time; I’m in the midst of revamping the second half of my novel and need to strike while the inspiration is hot! I’ve been considering posting my novel, a chapter (or portion…
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I’m convinced that when I was little, I knew exactly who I was. When I looked in a mirror, my body was a person with a head, torso and limbs just like every other person—like the stick families on the back windows of minivans—my parents, sister, and dog by my side. But my insides. I…
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I smiled to myself while driving home after work, admiring my squeegee job I just did on my windshield while getting gas—I had to use the hard edges just to get off the guts from a cloud of bugs I had driven through the day before. Ah, life is good, done work, finally driving home,…
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As an intro, I’d like to comment that I’ve taken on some satirical writing lately as I’ll be writing articles for Syndrome, an online magazine (‘just satire, just for women’) that’s well-known in Italy and has been introduced to North America recently. It raises awareness around women’s issues and matters in a fun, satirical way….
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Ack, why is it always shocking to me how busy June is as school and kids’ activities wind to an end? You’d think I’d know by now. (Yes, that’s my pathetic excuse for not posting anything recently.) Thankfully, a contest through my workplace resulted in the perfect way to put something on my blog and also celebrate Father’s Day. The…
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Recently, I went to Winners to look for a sports bra for my daughter. It was the Wednesday before the Easter long weekend and I was in a great mood—life just looks better right before an extra-long break from work. Though I’m normally a thrift store junkie, I came across a cute pair of jeans…
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We’ve all tried to be people other than ourselves, whether pretending we’re Australian Olympic divers at a hotel pool during a sibling’s softball tournament or pretending we’re Danish exchange students when we’re 15 so as to buy booze at a liquor store. (I know, very common examples, right?) But have you ever experienced feeling like an…
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When was the last time you heard something like, “Hey, that was awesome, you failed so amazingly!” My guess is: never. Most of us aren’t strangers to hearing advice on how to succeed, having heard those key success words since we were young, like ‘hard work’ and ‘determination’. Who doesn’t want to be successful? I…
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