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Why buy? On thinking ahead and living
This is something that both my mother and my peers have been asking me, and while my mother sees why homeownership is a necessary thing, that may not hold to be the case for folks my age. And I’m not …...
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A Letter to your Future Self
A little cheesy, I’m sure, but I glimpsed this on my FB feed and something about this made me smile. I’ve written a letter to my past self before s part of a challenge for a good cause, but this…this …...
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Behind the Gilded Shell
In thinking more of L'Wren Scott's death, I realized that pretty much every creative world is a shell. The difference is how we, as people, address what's under our own shells, and how we value it....
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Yeah. Perspective.
I’m 28. I’ll be 29 in a month and 6 days. And the first time I took a psychology class at the college level, I was a gawky fourteen-year-old, and the only reason I was in a college class at 14 was...
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An Open Letter to the Fitness & Dieting Industry
After being on and off with WeightWatchers, and after my scale information was completely counter to what my body is experiencing, I give the diet industry a big old middle finger.
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On Letting Someone Go (In Fiction and In Life)
There's always a time to say goodbye - whether it's to a character you've written or to a person whose time in your life has come to an end.
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Wow. It propagated. (On relationships – again – and why I won’t be in one)
Very interesting thing in my stats today: my old post on why I refuse to get into a relationship has been propagating. Long story short, Michael Baisden had dropped an excellent bit of food for thought...
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Beware of false prophets (or, caveat emptor)
Warning for “post that will piss people off”. Warning completed. In light of Joel Osteen’s exorbitant price tag for his “sermons”, I would like to say this: A life coach or a televangelist is a...
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On Hitting the Three-Oh and Milestones
So I turn 30 next year. I got to thinking about milestones, the LifeScript (tm) and redefining what all of that means.
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Fifty Shades of WTF?
I couldn’t resist. So yeah, the Fifty Shades of Grey tripe is becoming a movie franchise, and it has a shiny new trailer. Of course, people are going gaga over it. I swear, I must be a pod person or...
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On Events & Behind the Scenes
Or, better put, the viewer’s perspective on what makes events happen. First things first, though, I’d like to thank everyone who read my epic rant on Jazz Fest West. It’s probably my most-read post in...
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State of the Jazz Union
You may have read this in multiple parts in rant form, but a much more cohesive version of why I gnashed teeth over Yoshi’s and Jazz Fest West, and any festival apart from my beloved Capital Jazz that...
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On Dating and Music
So my friend Ace Livingston brought up an interesting topic on Facebook: dating a musician. Pros and cons. For one, I don’t date. Just getting that out of the way. And considering I have been in the...
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The Experienced Jazz Cruiser’s Guide to Jazz Cruising
I was sitting down with one of my best friends at dinner last night, and she told me that she’s heading to her first jazz cruise, and after our talk, it occurred to me that considering that I’m...
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A John Mayer song comes to mind…
I’m not exactly what you call a John Mayer fan, but if someone were to ask me to photograph a concert of his, I’d do so gladly. But the one thing I like about Mayer, apart from his voice, is the fact...
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Six years ago.
I can’t think of a better title for this post, because it’s one of those kinda-personal and kinda-not-really things, where you just write it out and let the chips fall where they may. If you read my...
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Trials and Tribulations of Traveling, The Series
Yep, your favorite traveling writer and photog had another brush with Murphy's Law.
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The Obligatory NaNo Post
In retrospect, maybe I should’ve taken a break from writing this year. I really don’t want to have to admit this, but there’s simply not enough time in the world to make everything happen the way you...
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A look behind, a look ahead.
Another year coming to a close. Now’s the time that I generally sit down and just do a reflection post, talk about what happened this year, and I find myself unsure of what starting point to pick....
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Money 101 For the College Grad Paying Loans
I know it’s a little bit of an odd title, but it occurred to me that, really, my peers need all the help in the finance department that they can get. I won’t kill the time waxing ranty about how …...
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