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About five years ago, I moved from my small hometown in Georgia to Los Angeles about a year after high school graduation with the hopes of pursuing an acting career. It was short-lived.
After attending acting classes for one academic year, I decided to try college once again and then enrolled into a two-year institution in [...]
When Carrie said, “I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love,” on Sex and the City, she could have been talking about her career. Frankly, I already have career-love. I’m a consumer affairs mediator. My job combines shopping, helping people and the occasional entertaining crazy. Bliss.
And yet.
It’s not my dream. Or it’s only [...]
Over the holidays, I had a chance to read the book The Noticer, by New York Times Bestselling Author Andy Andrews. It truly is a moving story.
The book is centered on the life of an old drifter named Jones, along with his mysterious encounters and impromptu counseling sessions with a number of residents living in [...]
