Category: Real Life

Writing has always been my go-to way to express myself. There hasn't been a moment in my life where I wasn't thinking about my next story, or observing life so that I could write it down later. Writing is an outlet to say the things I cannot say out loud. English is an elastic language. Anyone who tells you otherwise didn't get good grades in language arts. You can find the right word to manipulate and make it work for your process. My motto is to "tell a damn good story." Writing lets me do that. There are stories that…

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Damn near everything makes me laugh. Shall I count the ways? Callbacks to classic literature.Standup comedians who punch up and not down. If you know, you know.Physical comedy. Something about someone who uses their body or things around them for a gag cracks me up.Pokémon memes. Looking at you, Cynthia's Theme. Bad dad jokes. Good dad jokes.Puns. My bank account (ha!)Cartoons meant for kids, but really, the adults know what's up: Phineas & Ferb, Gravity Falls.Cartoons meant for adults, but really, kids can watch with you: Futurama, Bob's Burgers.Absurd situations.People who take their life too seriously. They're ridiculous.Inside jokes with…

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At the risk of sounding like a terrible person, I don't have any people to look up to. It's because I stopped looking at the surface of an individual and fight hard to explore the parts of themselves that they share with me. That's the baseline determination for me to see if they're worth being an inspiration to me. I learned quickly that you can't uphold the total package of a person to be your inspiration. Because we're all fantastically flawed. But you can look to the parts of them that feel aspirational for you if you choose to go…

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I can't tie a tie, on myself or on another person. This is something that I've tried to tackle over the years. I've used multiple YouTube videos. I've had people teach me in real life. Multiple times. True, it's rare that I would need it for day-to-day life. There's a handful of instances where I would need to wear a tie, and no one I know wears them on the regular. But it's something that I think everyone should know how to do. For some reason, I cannot get my hands to make sense of which part goes where and…

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Reruns of the original version of Muppet Babies was my absolute jam growing up. I have so many fond memories of watching that show even though I had aged out of Sesame Street by the time I started watching the reruns on Nickelodeon. Something about it was so much fun. Miss Piggy as a McDonald's Happy Meal toy from 1988 McDonald's was giving out a Christmas version of the Muppet Babies circa 1988. I'll never forget when I got my plush Miss Piggy in my Happy Meal. She and I were inseparable. I brought her everywhere. I didn't have a…

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Hmm. This one is kind of hard to answer? The ongoing pandemic has done a number on my sense of time and space as I'm sure it has done to yours. When I first sat down to ponder this, any anecdote I could pull from the hamster wheel powering the memory banks in my brain would immediately be useless as it would've taken place around 2019. So I'd like to share something taking place shortly. The City of Las Vegas offers seasonal art classes at a few community centers around town: dance, instrument instruction, painting, and the like. The closest…

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