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Gas prices are on the rise once again Stateside and as they reach that now-not-so-elusive $4+ moniker we’re all searching for ways to help ease the hit on our wallets. After some observations on my gas pumping habits I came up with this notion: Don’t wait until the tank’s nearly empty to fill up, fill up when the tank’s 1/2 to 1/3 full.

The reasoning is that when one waits til …

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With the curiosity of keen eyes you’ve seen a year’s worth of sights and wonders, colors and shapes, faces and places  - This is only the beginning, there’s much more to see.

A present will never atone for choice words of wisdom and therefore an empty present represents a tabula rasa, carte blanche, blank check for one to fill with whatever one’s heart desires. With the passing of another year and the dawning of a new one may all your wishes, dreams, aspirations, ventures, endeavors, and achievements come true in one’s lifetime.

With the hounds of inebriation dashing through my bloodstream I took refuge next to the bar table customary to the host’s kitchen in a house that was clamoring with vivacious partygoers. Not soon after settling, and becoming aquatinted with those surrounding the communal offerings of the table, I became the causality of an overgrown handbag that was swung modestly as the young woman beside me turned to venture away. The …

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Specular was the yellow caution tape that once had adorned the placid doors of the main exhibition theater amidst others leading to where dreams come true and where nightmares are sought out. The tape once had been as visible as Venus was during the right time of year in a darkened space speckled by constellations of faint light illuminating movie posters and it was a reminder of how many months …

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Originally written for the film crew of Midrash as a commemoration for the shoot.

Every morning for three days we all took a trip to the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the top of a mountain peak where something special occurred and every evening we took a trip back to civilization where many of us remained in silence as we reflected upon each day. Everyone reflects in their own …

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I recently joined a Facebook group set up by a high school classmate as a way to keep everyone from the class of 2001 in the know about our 10 year reunion coming up. I was appalled to read few comments saying that individual classmates were feeling old.

Old? Really? To be blunt what kind of pathetic life is one living to consider themselves old in their mid-twenties? I for one …

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The mid-to-late-twenties is a time for unfounded excitement for many. It is a time where graduated students are blossoming their work careers or embarking on further education, it’s a time where youthful energy allows one to fulfill athletic or personal goals, and it is a time of great personal growth that establishes a demeanor that will hopefully follow one throughout one’s life time.

One small, yet poignant, admission into this portion …

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Often in the American society we’re enamored, obsessed, and enchanted by speed. Whether it’s faster internet speeds, quicker cooking to produce meals, or rapid weight loss results we’re very open to any kind of advance that will speed up our daily life. Seems that sex is the only activity where speed isn’t a factor or is it …

The point that I’ll address is about traffic speed on the interstate system …

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I recently finished reading Vladimir Nabovok’s Laughter in the Dark for the second time, the first being during college in 2005. Upon the first reading it was very apparent that the primary theme of the novel was that love is blind and is a theme that I explored in an essay that won third place in my college’s essay contest for that year. The essay can be read here.

This second …

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