A One Year Recap

This May marks the one year anniversary of my graduation from college. 
For one whole year, I have driven every morning to work–five to six days a week.  I have gone through two jobs, two promotions, three bosses, five co-workers, and a considerable amount of adjustment.  Is this progress or is this coming to terms with [...]

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Revelations

As I was cleaning my apartment, I came across a book an eccentric great aunt had sent me for my college graduation: The Big Book of Women Saints.  I have no clue why anyone would give a recent college graduate a book about women who had to pretend they were bleeding from their hands just [...]

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Surprise! We’re in a Recession

As all jokes go, three friends were sitting outside on a Monday, discussing their job outlook after college. 
One friend was working at a job that had nothing to do with her college degree.
Another friend was working at Banana Republic, even though he graduated with a four year degree in three years.
And one friend, with a Master’s [...]

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People Who You’ll Never Agree With

I’m sure it comes off as common sense that you’re going to meet a lot of people that think differently than you do in the world.  I’m sure you already have.  Maybe you’re even meeting them right now.  At this very moment.  Surprise!
But the thing is, these people with all of their different-ness seem to [...]

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Why My Graduation Kicked Your Graduation’s Monkey Butt

I received a mass e-mail from my step mom congratulating both my sister and I on our graduations this week.  Mine from college.  Hers from preschool.
PRESCHOOL?!  With a cap and gown and everything?!  
Why, yes.  It turns out while I was going across the stage in my black gown and gold and white chords, celebrating 17+ [...]

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