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Big city dreams

I’m just a small town girl who moved to the big city with big dreams… just to find out, the only way to make it in the big city… is to shake it. And that’s what I do — at the Coyote Ugly. And… scene! With today’s excess time, I found myself rediscovering a kinship [...]

The romantic comedy guide to unemployment

Happy endings are made better by power ballads by Bryan Adams, dancing around a table invigorates the soul, and in any given competition you can make your soul mate fall for you if you remain aloof and uninterested. How strange and yet familiar all those things are. It’s as if I’m looking into a mirror [...]

Miss Popularity, 1959

My Mom wears a particular pendant. It’s more of a medal and badge of honor, really. It reads, “Miss Popularity, 1959.” A) How ridiculous is that to begin with? B) There’s so much more to the story… I always assumed that Mom was Miss Popularity in 1959 because she was the owner of the aforementioned [...]

Life after a road trip

I went, I saw and I drove. Now, I’m back.  Gone are my peanut butter and carrot lunches, Goldfish filled snack breaks and endless hours of driving along the Wyoming and South Dakota highways. It was good to be gone but it feels right to be back. I had plenty-o-time to think on the road [...]

Cover Letter and makeover tips from Bridgetta and Cher

While it’s apparently too early and annoying to have 90s nostalgia, I can’t help but think of a certain seminal film in Generation Y’s collective VCR called “Clueless.” Cher, a virgin who can’t drive, is still — to me — an American Hero. Cher, however, had a very obvious dark side. So rich, so pretty, [...]

Life on the road

I told myself I didn’t need to write this week, but after a first day of driving through California, Nevada and a stop outside Salt Lake City, I changed my mind. It was some where during the miles of Nevada nothingness and the casino/food/hotel — don’t judge. It was the last stop in Nevada and [...]

Playing temporary employed

I went to talk to a temp agency today. I love temp agencies. They are like the best significant other ever. They make you feel special, important and worthy, and they pay you. What more could an unemployed girl ask for? Don’t say full time job because then I’d have to hit you and no [...]

The footprints in the sand

All of the sudden, I have found myself with a sun kissed body full of Dairy Queen and (let’s just say) three glasses of red wine. I am watching Bob Ross’ kind of creepy, yet kind of soothing voice on PBS… A lot. You know, the dude with the ‘fro who paints the same painting [...]

My all American carpe diem road trip

Oh Robin Williams how right you were when you spoke to me — through the VCR of course — about opportunity and life and seizing the day. I always wanted an opportunity to throw caution to the wind and seize the moment, but I am horrible at it. My mind always races ahead. Minutes, days, [...]

Lessons in survival: putting off the future to save for today

I did it. I pulled out my IRA. Before anyone goes judging me — for the song choice or pulling out my IRA — let me explain. Ok, judge me openly for DMB. That was just cruel of me to do. But it fit and I stand by that. As for the IRA, let explain. [...]