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Continue reading →: Global Warming Doesn’t Discriminate
I had an entirely different article I was planning on publishing this week, but how could I when the place I call home is being ravaged by historical and devastatingly destructive fires? It’s easy to find sympathy and compassion when others suffer through a climate crisis, but when the climate crisis is at your front door, affecting people you know and communities you are fond of, there’s a different kind of anguish and grief you experience. You find yourself scrolling on social media, getting breaking news notifications from various news sites when tragedy and disaster occurs. You feel pain and…
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Continue reading →: New Year, Same Me
Before every new year, I make a list. I make a list of all the things I want to accomplish, things I want to buy, how I want people to perceive me, who I want to become. Along with this list I also write an entry in my (now passed) journal. I write about what I hope this new year is going to bring and how all the struggle I faced in the previous year will have been worth it. Yet every year it ends the same way. I do not meet the love of my life, I do not…
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Continue reading →: Best Friends 4 Ever
The corporate holiday party. A staple in the corporate world to celebrate the upcoming holidays, the end of one fiscal year and the start of another, and a brutal reminder that although we are all drinking way too much alcohol and making far too many jokes about the current workload, come 9 a.m. tomorrow, we will have to face the consequences of drinking way too much alcohol and deal with the workload we all shared oh so many laughs and eyerolls about. Corporate holiday parties can come in all different shapes and sizes. There’s the elaborate rented-out ballrooms equipped with…