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Are You Psy-Curious? Let’s Try Talk Therapy.
What kind of a complete stranger could you cry in front of? That was what I wondered when I decided to try talk therapy. I wasn’t planning on crying, but I was going all in, and who knows where that leads? We accept checkups and tune-ups as sensible for our body and our machines, but…
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How You Can Subvert a Trump-Like Boss
Surely everyone has worked for a jerk before, but I feel my travels through that universal experience contain an extra value. See, an executive that I worked for years ago (we’ll call her Jessica, not her real name) was extremely similar to current USA President and Wannabe Dictator Donald Trump. Their behaviors, their attitudes, their quirks,…
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Book Review: Martyr!
I’m not usually a literary genre person but I saw the hype about Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and gave it a try. PROS: Interesting perspective of Iranian man. He comes to the USA and has common problems (fitting in as a gay man, battling addiction, struggling with injustice.) The repeated mentions of the US Navy…
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The War on Christmas Is Over! Bring on the Toilet Wars!
The Jerkiest of Jerks It’s no secret this world is full of jerks. Jerks of all kinds. At the top of the scale, the jerkiest of the jerky, are those that exploit kindness. I mean those who pretend to be in distress, then when a passerby tries to help, the criminal strikes, robbing (or doing…