Let me be up front with you, friends. This is a goal that I did not achieve. This is one for the FAIL blog. If I had been living in Rawville, I'd be taken to the city limits and kindly asked to point my feet towards the horizon.Will you be kind...

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Let me be up front with you, friends. This is a goal that I did not achieve. This is one for the FAIL blog. If I had been living in Rawville, I'd be taken to the city limits and kindly asked to point my feet towards the horizon.Will you be kind...
A delicious truffle with undertones of dirt, clay and seeds. Nom nom! Every day on my walk to work I pass over Interstate 94. When I'm not busy wishing I had worn more comfortable shoes, I'm looking at the scrubby, weedy embankments that line the...
I realized belatedly, after I chose this goal, that I'm not really a stranger to cultural celebrations. Working with the Southeast Asian community, I've attended a "Springtime Wrist Tying Ceremony" and a Hmong New Year celebration in the last year....
When I was eight years old, I announced to my parents that I wanted to be a writer. Okay, I was actually aiming for some sort of writer/ballerina/lion-tamer hybrid, but I was pretty sure that I wanted the written word to be part of my future. And...
When one pays five dollars for a piece of fruit, one can be excused for having some rather high expectations, right? But I knew that things weren't necessarily going to go well when the cashier couldn't identify said fruit and spent five minutes...
Having worked in the hospitality industry before, I'm usually a pretty good tipper. If you ignore me, make snarky comments about my order of pie and bacon and then spill things on me, I will still probably give you 15%. And if you behave like a...
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