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College: Part II, Hunter College

January 12, 2015

Hunter College is a relatively hard school to get into, because it’s super cheap, and has a pretty good reputation.  I liked Hunter immediately.  Like me, the students and professors had other lives.  They worked and went to college (or taught classes).  It didn’t have that pretentious University feel.  It felt like a good fit
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College: Part I, Suffolk Community College

January 4, 2015

In high school, I was a slightly above average student.  I had mostly A’s, except in Math where I struggled to a get a B.  I grew up in West Islip, a middle class to upper middle class town on the south shore of Long Island.  When senior finally came, the buzz was all about
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2014: Shining On The Inside

December 29, 2014

I was standing in line at a Barnes & Noble on a gloomy rainy day.  The type of torrential down pour where if it were a Jurassic Park movie, the T-Rex would attack.  I could tell the lady behind me wanted to talk to me.  Strangers love talking to me.  They open up to me
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Last Christmas

December 21, 2014

Last Christmas, I didn’t give anyone my heart, and therefore it was not given away, like the popular Wham! song.  Though, last Christmas, my parents decided they were going to spend the holiday in sunny Florida with my Grandma.  I was pissed.  Not only were they leaving us on Christmas, but they were going to
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Jedi’s & Jesus

December 15, 2014

Despite the fact that I’m a blasphemer, I’m proud to be the God Mother of my darling nephew.  But being an atheist, in a church, “renewing my faith” in a traditional ritual so that babies don’t get lost in limbo,(ipso facto, the church using fear to create another customer in their business) was a bit
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Top 12 Christmas Songs

December 7, 2014

12. 2000 Miles – The Pretenders Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders are an awesome rock band, killing it with their song 2000 Miles.  It’s a great blue rock and roll Christmas tune about missing someone, that’s great to blast in your car and sing along to. “In these frozen and silent nights, sometimes in a dream
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Confessions of a Nursing Home Worker (Part II)

December 1, 2014

I tried not to get too close to the residents.  As mean as it sounds, the nursing Home was a waiting room for death, and I didn’t want to get friendly with people who were about to die.  I looked at it as a job.  I do it.  I go home.  I don’t think about
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Confessions of a Nursing Home Worker (Part I)

November 24, 2014

When I worked in the Nursing Home, we had a fire evacuation plan.  The plan was, we were to report to the auditorium.  A room in the middle of the building with no windows.  Yup.  That’s one hell of a plan. In the event of a fire, we were to report to the windowless room,
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Ugly Duckling

November 17, 2014

Growing up, I was a really late bloomer.  I mean, really late bloomer.  I was still growing after I graduated high school.  I grew a couple inches in my 20’s.  I had baby teeth in middle school.  My wisdom teeth still have not come.  I didn’t get my period till after my 16th birthday.  I
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Honest Living Pilot

November 11, 2014