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LATEST ARTICLES ( 209 )

• Second-Hand Sunglasses

  

  The Saturday before school started, Tina and her mom went to Second Hand Love for back-to-school clothes. Tina hated the feeling of wearing someone else’s jeans... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do Not Pass “Go”

  

  I suppose the idea burrowed into my brain during my first upper-division literature course, which makes sense. It was Victorian literature, and the professor wa... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Without the Map

  

  I tried to forgive them, for my sanity’s sake, but the longer I sat there the more I wanted revenge. Imagining walking back to town through the piss-soaked... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Judee

  

  In the span of a breath, everything changed It fell from her hand, hung from a limp trunk Glinting with hazard, its surface warned us Of perils she ignored, or... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Grown-up Furniture

  

  A fun factoid most people don’t know about me is that my dad built most of my nice furniture. Sure, there’s the glossy piano that I got as a graduation... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Where We Take Our Smoke Breaks

  

  “That’s where we take smoke breaks,” Anna pointed toward an E-Z Up under the Eucalyptus, several yards from the facility’s cafeteria. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Employment. Finally.

  

  I have a job now. I blinked my eyes forcefully and next thing I knew I was filling out HR forms and getting a TB test. In fact, it happened almost by accident.... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Racism, White People & Ferguson

  

  Photo Credit: AP/Jeff RobersonWhite people like to pretend that racism doesn’t exist anymore.I was taught, as a child, to not see skin color. We are all the... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moving Thoughts

  

  Most of the boxes are unpacked now. Those that aren’t have been stacked up in storage, to be forgotten until we move again someday. There’s not as much to... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Un-Recap BlogHer Recap

  

  I arrived alone, and I left alone. In between I built on past relationships and set the foundation for new ones, but ultimately it was me. Alone. Like I am all... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• In France: A World Cup Story

  

  France, 2006. My sister and I were on a we’re in our early 20′s so why the hell not? adventure, back before either of us had been bitten by too much... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Your Way to Steal My Mermaid, Eh?

  

  “Can I have the last one?” she asked, reaching her fork over.“Hell no!” I swatted it away, a fly hovering over the syrup.“I never get to eat Æbleskiver,”... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Long Walk Back

  

  I couldn’t have asked for a more gorgeous day off work. Sky so crisply blue it seemed tangible, clouds high and fluffy, temperature in the low seventies. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The L.A. Scene

  

  One of the great injustices in the current unemployed’s list of hoops through which to jump is the new-and-improved prospective employee-vetting process. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Writing Process: Finding a Room of My Own

  

  You know that thing that’s going around the Internet? You know which one I’m talking about. No, not the one about the cat in the shark costume on the Roomba,... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Not Waving But Drowning

  

  Walking usually boosts my mood, but today the walk is a mistake. My forehead glistens with sweat and my skin feels like a droplet of icy water might sizzle on... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poem: Into the Void

  

  Photo courtesy of Steven LewisThese four walls enclosed me So long I don’t remember Sunshine or moonlight Or much beyond broken promises No one made me And... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Homeowner’s Real Estate Fear

  

  Disclaimer: Not my actual houseThere comes a time in the process of selling a house when every homeowner realizes he or she is an enormously disgusting slob. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Would Change My Name

  

  I was starting to realize I always notice smells. This room smelled of bureaucratic dust and the yeasty, lingeringly angry odor of people standing in line all... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Baking on a Friday Night

  

  I don’t know if I’ve told you this, but when I’m stressed out, I bake. Sometimes cookies or bread, but more often than not, I bake complex items that take on... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION