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I always say life is a sitcom. Well, I think I found my set. Lucky for me, there’s a coffee shop not far from my...
58,000. That’s the population of the cities like Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bozeman, Montana. Sanford, Florida. It’s also the number of names carved into the Vietnam Veterans...
There’s a list I carry in my head. People I’ve seen. People I’ve touched. People I watched on a stage and never forgot. A New...
OK. Here I am, a gawky, skinny 15-year-old walking into where he was talking, not nicely, to my mom. There he is, way bigger than...
I was four years old. My dad was on a gurney, on his way out the door to the hospital after a heart attack. He...
She was young. She was beautiful. And I, a nine-year-old kid from Flushing, Queens, had a giant crush on her. Mrs. Swenson, my fourth grade...
My freakin internet connection doesn’t work. To fix that problem my gigantic corporate internet provider sent me a new cellular modem. I had to ask...
“Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.” That’s Hamlet. And I’ve been thinking about it for a while now. I am lazy. Ergo, I...
The water below was a beautiful shade of blue-green. The pink coral was shining through. Light winds. Variable. And me, a 24-year-old Air Force lieutenant...
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