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I take it as an insult when somebody calls me The N Word: Nice. Out of 100,000 adjectives in the English language, if the best you can come up with is nice, then I'm doing something wrong.
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Keep reading →Life might be like a box of chocolates, (or slightly-chilled dark chocolate truffles, if I have any say in the matter). But it’s also like a huge, daunting puzzle. A winding labyrinth* of tiny cardboard pieces that snap
Keep reading →Right out of college, (and fresh off the farm*), I found myself smack dab in the middle of a telemarketing call center, trying to convince strangers to sign up for $60,000 educations at an online “university” they couldn’t
Keep reading →There’s a lot of bullshit around the word “responsible.” We let this tiny word guilt us to the grave. Do the responsible thing. Act responsibly. Be a responsible adult. Don’t be so irresponsible. I don’t know if
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