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Flirting With Integrity: The Descent Into Homelessness Begins in Earnest
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. The Descent Into Homelessness Begins in Earnest. Shortly after writing my last blog entry, I got another rejection notice from another job. This one was noteworthy as it came from the very college who awarded me my degree. It was for a marketing position that had, I thought, listed every single qualification I had in its requirements list. Until the notice, I had been subdued but hopeful. Our belongings will be given away, donated or trashed. This is not the worse thing to happ...
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Flirting With Integrity: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Knee Jerk Emotion and Other New Year's Eve Activity. It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m trying to relax at home with my family on a particularly cold night. I’ve spent the last few days trying to convince myself that as soon as the year ends, I need to find the strength to turn the page. So writing a blog was the furthest thing from my mind until I read a blog. Being one of her followers, I understood what that child means to her. She has written openly about the difficult loss...
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Flirting With Integrity: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Side effects include funeral costs? I had a funny experience recently with my asthma medication. As most of you know, I've had a life-long battle with asthma. We all know that the illness can kill. But I've always been one of those sufferers whose life was never quite at risk. I have two inhalers, Symbicort, a maintenance inhaler, and a Xopenex emergency inhaler (which I was told was better for the environment than other aerosol inhalers.). My health is fine. Ringing in the ears.
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Flirting With Integrity: Knee Jerk Emotion and Other New Year's Eve Activity
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Knee Jerk Emotion and Other New Year's Eve Activity. It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m trying to relax at home with my family on a particularly cold night. I’ve spent the last few days trying to convince myself that as soon as the year ends, I need to find the strength to turn the page. So writing a blog was the furthest thing from my mind until I read a blog. Being one of her followers, I understood what that child means to her. She has written openly about the difficult loss...
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Flirting With Integrity: It's Hard to Grow Used to Rejection
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Sunday, December 7, 2014. It's Hard to Grow Used to Rejection. I still remember the look on my sister-in-law’s face when she made her latest and boldest statement. 8220;Oh they’ll hire you,” she said confidently of a local bus transit. Company. “They’re always hiring.”. She told this to my husband who has a job with a very, very modest salary. Of course it means we’re unable to pay our rent or bills with what he earns. And I have been searching for work since earlier this year. I have read these words li...
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Flirting With Integrity: August 2009
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Thursday, August 20, 2009. One in a Mega Million. How much is $207,000,000 divided into, say 15? More than my cell phone calculator can compute, apparently). It actually works out to $1,380,000. Before taxes and all that. Of course, I didn't need to calculate it. It's been calculated more than a dozen times by several participants of our office lottery pool. But I think I'm more amazed at the reaction. We all had it spent. Is it desperation, wishful thinking or both? Isn't that what we all want? We're al...
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Flirting With Integrity: Reaching a Tipping Point
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Reaching a Tipping Point. Desperation came to a Subway sandwich today in my small inland city. The lady in the pink T-shirt was blond and thin and she was yelling. 8220;I’ve been out in the streets,” she loudly announced to everyone. “I can’t do it anymore.”. The pace of her diatribe was frenetic and mostly directed at two very young Subway Sandwich. That brought the lady in pink’s polemic to a brief halt. I suggested maybe she was ill, maybe not. Maybe she was serious, may...
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Flirting With Integrity: It's Hard to Keep Your Head Up When Unemployment is Holding You Down
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Saturday, November 22, 2014. It's Hard to Keep Your Head Up When Unemployment is Holding You Down. I probably should not be writing this. That’s what I keep telling myself. But alas here it is. I should have at least written this months ago, when hope was fresher and the weight of unemployment hadn’t yet broken my spirit. This narrative can, and likely will, take on a depressive tone, too heavy for most to want to endure. Had Her challenge included facing cancer and the end of her marriage. Struggling to...
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Flirting With Integrity: July 2009
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Monday, July 27, 2009. Conversations from Costa Rica (Part 1). Almost a week home and I finally emerge. But while I was there, I became a Chatty Cathy. So I was chatty. Big deal. Actually it was a big deal. I found myself doing the reporter thing a lot because I desperately wanted to absorb as much as I could about the people I was spending time with. I did not catch their names and they never caught mine. But that didn’t keep the conversation from flowing. 8220;There’s a big crime problem,” ...The conve...
