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Is There Room For You in Your Life?
Is there a place for you in your life? I want you to think about that. Then I want you to think about the fruit flies wandering around your apartment, and the frogs in Austin. I want you to summon...
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Personal Advice on Proper Bedroom Etiquette
My girlfriend and I live together. We are a young, hip couple (she is hipper than I) starting our life together in Los Angeles. She has an excellent job. I am working two internships and a part-time...
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Pass the Salt of the Earth
I don’t want to write another piece on finding a job because, frankly, they’re a dime a dozen – not just here but all over the internet. It is no longer news and, therefore, it is no longer part of...
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Palin ‘10
Palin ‘10 It is midterm election season, and I’m voting Palin. By “midterm election season,” I mean, “halfway through the new season of Dancing with the Stars.” And I’m all hands on deck, letting...
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Bottles on the Wall
PD Photo.orgI have an old friend who almost never drops a call. Living in California, it is not unusual to have correspondence drag over the course of an evening, or several weeks. So this prompt old...
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Ethics
Proposition 19 did not pass in California, and no doubt a good deal of the state is disappointed. While it’s true that the legalization of marijuana would have led to an initial hooplah there is no...
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Chicken Pot Humble Pie
PD PhotoBeing half a history major I enjoy learning how language grouped together from the assorted odds and ends of our babbling ancestors. Let me lay one on you (for the sake of my point, seen...
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Beating the Birthday
PD PhotoI do not celebrate my birthday. It has been a source of annual frustration in my life. When I was a child, my family moved. From preschool to twelfth grade I attended ten schools in four...
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Dear Apartment #8
Dear Apartment #8, Three months ago when I got here, I took a big step. I had just relocated across the country, and I moved in after only seeing you once. So I was pretty shocked when I got the...
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The Season
PD PhotoI have known homeless people, men and women. I haven’t known more of them than average, most likely. But I have worked with them over the years. I have interviewed homeless men in Costa Mesa...
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