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Continue reading →: Live Within My Means
How does your mindset affect your financial success? View all responses When I was younger, around 12, I lived with my two retired great-aunts. Life with them was stable and comfortable, though not extravagant. I don’t remember us lacking anything. By contrast, after I turned 14 and began living with…
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Continue reading →: I love you. Now Feed Me
If your pet could talk, what would be the first thing it says? View all responses If Taz could talk, the first thing she would do is bump my head and say, “I love you; now feed me.” Or she’d say something like, “You up again? When do we sleep?”…
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Continue reading →: No Regrets
I enjoyed every book I took the time to finish. I started many others and abandoned them after a few chapters because they simply didn’t hold my interest. That includes several so-called classics, such as Wuthering Heights and Ulysses. I prefer experiencing those stories in movie form, which feels less exhausting for my…
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Continue reading →: Elegance in Spain
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) was one of the busiest, most overwhelming, and longest-walking airports I’ve ever been through. By contrast, one of the smallest airports I’ve visited was Flagstaff. I’m the kind of person who gets anxious at Costco on a busy day, so too much hustle and bustle…
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Continue reading →: The Illustrated Man 9
Zoe waited until Isabel’s footsteps faded down the hallway. Then she crossed to the evidence board and removed Julian’s photograph. When she turned, Gabe was standing in the doorway. “I thought you left,” she said. “I thought you trusted me.” “I do.” “Parts of me?” Zoe slipped the photograph into…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Mama
One look in the mirror and I see my mother looking back at me. She is there in every fiber of my being, in my dreams, in my memories. September 6 marks the date my mother passed away. As a Buddhist, I know she has another life. My wish is…
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Continue reading →: Why Do Movie Characters Have Absolutely No Survival Instincts?
If my front door is hanging off its hinges and I hear a thud upstairs, I am not walking into the dark house to ask, “Hello? Is anybody there?” I am running a marathon in the opposite direction. Yet, for some reason, book and movie characters seem to think a…
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Each moment of happiness or pleasure is a rare treasure, safely locked in memory. Is there a whole year I’d want to relive? No, because those moments of happiness also come with suffering. It is in the very nature of the cycle of life. We may remember the highlights, but…
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Continue reading →: At the Crossroads
Her eyes adjusted to the brightness of her new world. She stood in a field of sunflowers taller than she was, arranged in neat rows like sentinels. A narrow dirt path ran between them. Her feet were bare, and the dirt between her toes felt warm and soft. The subtle,…
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Continue reading →: Leaving Home
The bravest thing I have ever done is leaving home with just 15 dollars in my pocket, my guitar, and my clothes in an overnight bag. That night I broke the chains of guilt that were tying me to my mother and sister. Like so many ACOA (Adult Children of…
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