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Dear Bay Area, Give LA a Chance
I went to LA over labor day weekend and expected to hate it, having absorbed the LA-negative attitude of the Bay Area. To many people that call the Bay Area home, the idea of actually enjoying LA is as...
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Remember Deb? She’s No Longer Cute, But I’m Trying to Love Her.
On August 14th, 2013, I wrote about Deb, my little succulent, and how much I love her and was glad to have something in my life that I could celebrate instead of myself. I purchased her a beautiful new...
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Context is everything – This message sent from right behind you.
So you get an email from someone and at the bottom it says “Sent from iPhone. Please pardon typos” or something to that effect. That’s interesting. Once upon a time, we didn’t automatically understand...
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What we talk about when we talk about adult acne
It gets better, they said. Just wait. Soon it will all make sense. Soon your hips will stop widening, your jaw and nose will grow in equal pace, you’ll understand bra sizes and stop being embarrassed...
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Some Things and Their Places: A Story
Things on Ships: Pirates Sails (extra ones below deck) Parrots Rats Engine (depending on the type of boat) Yar Swashbuckling Skipper Yellow bellies Things on a Christmas tree: Hope Christmas lights...
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Feels like San Francisco to Me
I want to talk about Tuesday, when I was walking to a party. It was a nice night, a clear one with a couple of stars poking through. The deep blue black of the night here always reminds me of frosting...
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20 Pieces of Advice for My Sister’s Trip to San Francisco
Dear Sister, I’m so excited that you’re coming to visit me in San Francisco for Christmas, that you’re leaving parents and home far behind in Oklahoma and venturing out to the West Coast, a journey our...
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Why You Should Laugh at Yourself
Because sometimes you notice that you have broccoli caught in your teeth from dinner a couple of hours ago and it’s now 8:30 and you’ve been making eyes with someone all night. Sometimes your shirt is...
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Hey, My Weekend was Great. Thanks for Asking.
Hey, thanks for asking how my weekend was. I appreciate you thinking of me on a Monday morning when we’re all desperately crowding around the coffee like bison around a watering hole in a dusty, dry...
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Why the Office is a Teeming Cesspool of Miracles
Are you familiar with the term the built environment? It’s not the mountains or the ocean or the forest or a rocky outcropping. It’s the places that humans have built for themselves to spend tons of...
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