It's true that I spent the first 17 years of my life in a protected, little suburb in St. Louis, and that I was relatively shielded from urban life, or drama that extended beyond boyfriends,…
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For a long time now, I haven't niche myself. I intuited, assumed and experienced the fact that the wider I cast my net, the greater the number of fish I could possibly, and did ultimately,…
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Being the sponge isn't quite like being the change you want to see in the world...but kind of. I'm like a sponge - not necessarily full of odd shaped holes, or smelly, or even brightly…
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I don't want to let you all down, but I have to tell you that I have a flaw - (yes! just one) which, to be perfectly honest, I could spin into a talent were…
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My daughter came into this world 5 weeks early and at least 5lbs too small. But, to be honest, that never slowed her down. She was out of the NICU in 11 days, out of…
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For as long as I can remember, I've been making deals with myself, or God, or the Universe, or the Devil or whatever I believed at the time was in control of my life. They…
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Way, way back, a long time ago - like in the 90's - I ran in a fantastic road race in Harvard, MA: the annual Apple Harvest Ramble Road Race. It's a 10-miler through a…
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I grew up in St. Louis - a city boundaried by the great Mississippi, the river that divides our country into east and west; a city with a monstrous steel arch marking the gateway to…
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I just got off the phone with a friend. She was telling me about her morning. Like me, she's a freelancer, but of graphic design. This morning, before she even opened Photoshop, she did her…
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Jumper Cables…
