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TRYING SO HARD: writing so hard
Or, how I wrote a feature film in a week.
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TRYING SO HARD: the reset button
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TRYING SO HARD: advice from my dad
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TRYING SO HARD: i had forgotten
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TRYING SO HARD: reboot camp
The last few months, everything in my life just started falling apart. Big traumatic things like a miscarriage and small little things like a sensitive…
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TRYING SO HARD: graduation day
I’ve always loved graduating… Wait a second, no I don’t! With graduation, there can be such a sense of accomplishment, mixed with the hope of “What’s…
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TRYING SO HARD: advice from my dad
Nothing has impacted my life more than my father’s death in 2012. It was so unexpected, so shocking, that it has broken and tested my faith repeatedly…
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TRYING SO HARD: mother may i?
I knew this month might be challenging… and I was right.
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TRYING SO HARD: no warranty
Lately everything I own has been deteriorating. Mostly, I’ve just lived with their malfunctions, or gotten rid of them. But when my beloved electric tea…
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TRYING SO HARD: do the right thing
I found a student ID on the street and spent some time figuring out how to track down its owner. Posted on neighborhood message boards, tracked down a…
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TRYING SO HARD: ride ride again
I used to love roller coasters. The closest one to me growing up was Six Flags Great Adventure, and it felt like the ride technology advanced every…
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