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I’m in the market to purchase a new property. My property minimally has to be a duplex and ideally would be a small apartment building. Since I generally play it […]
Original post: Real Estate Pet Peeves

Ugh.
For the record, I am so over this story. Generally, I hate to write stories that don’t have a point and something about this one screams Zero Plot! to me. […]
Original post: Finding Relatives on Myspace

Brother:  Oh God, my stomach hurts! Why o why did I eat that strawberry shortcake?
V:  Uh, because you like strawberry shortcake?
Brother:  But I was full after my meal! Why would […]
Original post: Jesus Knows

I guess most people would have been happy to hear they had a Father who was alive and wanted to get to know them. But I wasn’t.
In my case, I […]
Original post: The Difference Between a Real Father and a Biological One

OK, let’s rewind.
I’m going to take you all back to when I was 19 years old. I was divorced, in college and surrounded by friends. I had a pretty decent […]
Original post: My Adoption and How My Biological Father Tracked Me Down

One early evening, two weeks ago, I was sitting in front of my computer doing idle searches. Suddenly, my hands froze and I felt like the wind had been knocked […]
Original post: My Long Lost Sister is Better Than Your Long Lost Sister

I have a good friend who has worked as a personal nanny for a number of years. She got into the field the summer after she graduated high school and […]
Original post: How to Scare Away a Good Nanny

Since I’ve started this site, I’ve had a few agents contact me about the possibility of writing a book. I’ll admit I was a little curious and asked a few […]
Original post: Will I Write a Book? (And Other Questions Asked Via Email)

Some of you might have noticed my spiffy new catchphrase. This one comes from Vexa who submitted this baby back in April. From what I can tell, Vexa runs a […]
Original post: May Catchphrase Winner

When I wrote my article on depression, a lot of people went into pointlessly long lectures about the difference between clinical depression and sadness. They needn’t have done this; I […]
Original post: How the Me-Generation Ruined Modern Conversation