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It never occurred to me until recently that my parents didn’t have a lot of money.
It wasn’t that we were ever poor, per se. We always had food on the table and clothes on our back. My dad always worked full-time, and my mom almost always was working most days of the week. [...]

(Originally guest posted here.)
Lately, I’ve found myself complaining a lot about my job. Words like “understaffed” and “overworked” have been rolling off my tongue. However, when I find myself ruminating a little too much, I just whisper a sentence to myself to make it all seem sunny again.
“At least it’s not KFC.”
Yes, KFC, home of the [...]

When I was 17, I impulsively told a boy I loved him. It was the summer. I was starting college in the fall, and we were dangling our feet off a cliff into the lake, my parents packing up their picnic basket in the distance. We’d been dating for nearly a year, talking on the [...]

When you think about it, blogging is a lot like high school. Sure, we’re a little older, a little wiser and we’ve been using Facebook longer than most of today’s actual high school students, but there are similarities.
We may not have lunch tables to sit at or cliques to linger with in the common area [...]

So this week has been ridiculous. Not, “feather boa wearing, ‘oh look I found $100!’, rainbows everyday” sort of ridiculous, it’s been more like “sweet baby J, someone just kill me now so the misery ends“. See the difference?
I have to admit, I wasn’t feeling that inspired to write anything other than ” WHY IS [...]

My 10 year high school reunion is this summer. Facebook groups have been formed and dates are being thrown around.
I find this both exciting and a little petrifying.
Unlike seemingly the rest of the world, I didn’t hate high school. 
(My last years of elementary and first years of junior high were a whole ‘nother story. My [...]