Today is my 32nd birthday. I can’t say that I’m happy about it. But I’m coming to terms with it. At this point in my life, birthdays for me are a reminder of my mortality. They ceased being about gifts when I was in my teens. For a while in my college years, I thought my […]
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Music for Renee:My aunt needs help
Hi all. This is another post in which I ask for money, but not on behalf of myself. If such posts bother you, please go on about your business. I’ve gone back and forth on whether or not I should post this, asking you all to help a complete stranger. But ultimately, I decided that […]
Personal Interlude: A Project Awesome update
When I’m too busy to write a nice, well-thought out blog post ahead of time, then things are actually going pretty well. Project Awesome launched a month and a day ago. Since then, I have had no more success in finding a job than before, but everything else has improved dramatically. Freelancing is going very […]
Make Your Own Path
I’m stepping in between the regularly scheduled reader questions posts to talk a little bit about a post that I wrote at a low point at the beginning of the month. I try not to let my personal emotional life affect things on the blog, but I was really struggling, so I turned to my […]