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Tag: life

  • Evil-ish 

    In fiction, the villain is often self-aware, and when cornered, will be quite forthcoming in their diabolical plot as they laugh at the suffering of others. In real life, more often than not, no one sees themselves as the bad guy either before, during or even after they get caught.  On the small scale you start…

  • Finding the Courage to be Yourself

    I recently spent some time with my cousin’s teenage daughter. She was telling me about all the trends that the girls and boys her age followed in school. My cousin and I laughed because we remembered brands that were popular when we were teenagers. We remembered how important it was to have jeans made by…

  • Arrivals & Departures

    When my father passed decades ago, it was a quick. He seemed relatively healthy and active, then just died on his way to work. Within two weeks his body was buried, and within two months all of his paperwork was closed out. His name was carved onto a headstone and deleted from all of the…