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This time last year, give or take a couple of days, I was hand-washing underwear in the bathroom sink of a Motel 6 next to the Dallas – Fort Worth airport after a canceled flight left me stranded. I was on edge because not only was I separated from my luggage (and the rest of…
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Everyone wants to outsource, I explain. We think about how nice it would be to crawl into bed, unplug the clock, turn off the phone and just sleep and sleep and sleep until we’ve made up for every wide awake night of the last decade. We wonder if there are people out there we could…
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A Friday night fete. I end up trapped at the kitchen table with new colleagues who want to get philosophical and chummy. Very chummy. I am sober. Very sober. And I am the only woman left. Things get awkward. I wait until a broken wine glass provides a convenient distraction and I run out the…
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I am not very good at waiting. Never have been. And lately, I’ve been doing a lot of waiting. A lot. Boomerangs that I’ve tossed out and now it’s up to the universe to return them. Photo by Bondseye I wasn’t one of those kids who kicked the back of the seat and kept asking,…
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Lately, I’ve been working on some other writing. Writing that’s more in the vein of literary non-fiction essays and writing that I plan to pull together into a something. Maybe a something with a cover and pages and page numbers, dig? I thought I would share a little excerpt of it with you. Reactions via…
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List Served is a semi-regular feature wherein I present you with an ordered grouping of (at least tangentially) related points. I love lists and the internet loves ephemeral minutiae. It’s all good. I’m quite sure my approach to personal development and motivation would have much more in common with Tyler Durden than Anthony Robbins, but…
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I stumbled across an interesting little discussion at one of my internet haunts the other day and it set my brain whirring. What started out innocently enough as someone asking if others still felt like adolescents and were weirded out by their peers having acquired all of the trappings of adulthood quickly devolved into some…
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Dear JMH, I’ve been reading GenMeh for a while and I get the idea that you might be a good one to ask about this. I feel like everyone in the world is on a mission to annoy me all the time. Coworkers, friends, family, even random strangers. I know that everyone has their quirks,…
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Last fall, I got into the habit of getting off the bus a few stops early and walking a couple of miles home at the end of the day. I would sling my messenger bag over my shoulder, turn up the volume on Matt Nathanson’s Some Mad Hope on my mp3 player (well over a…
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Yesterday afternoon, a friend and I were lamenting the announced closing of a prominent think tank. She remarked that the general public probably wouldn’t even notice its disappearance from the intellectual landscape. True. Social sciences research for its own sake ain’t exactly the stuff of sexy headlines and well, duh, it’s a recession y’all. Organizations…
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