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Travel Log starting with my first solo road trip in 2009.

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Column from Valentine's Day 2001

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2-15-01 Ok, well, we all just survived another Valentine's Day, but I have to admit, it got me thinking. There were a few poor souls who may have had a rough time of it. Yes, of course, I'm talking about all the celebrities who broke up fairly recently. Can't remember them all? My pleasure. There was Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, Janet Jackson and that DeBarge fellow, Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, Puffy and Jennifer Lopez, and Tom and Nicole. Hell, even Hugh Hefner broke up with his wife just a year or so ago. Of course, now he has like, seven girlfriends who ALL sleep in the same bed with him, so I don't know, that's sort of different. And you know, some of these couples really really seemed like they would work. I mean, maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic, because I really thought Liz Taylor and that construction worker guy had a chance, and that didn't work out, but I don't know, I'...
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New Hardware Store Column From 2001

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Principalities

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January 2nd, 2014 StoryStarter prompt: His touch was gentle against her cheek, but the kindness in his eyes had give way to a clouded fury that scared her... It was her first time in the principal's office, so Brianne had no idea what to expect. It was sort of weird that they brought her in and sat her down in the wooden hardback chair and left her alone in the drab little grey walled office, she thought. I mean, weren't there things of value in the office? Maybe in the desk? Or the lone file cabinet sitting next to the desk? If she was the type of person who got sent to the principal's office, weren't they afraid she would be the type of person who might steal the brass armadillo paperweight? Or the coffee mug with BECKENWORTH HIGH printed on the side? Were the answers to EVERY exam located somewhere in a drawer? Couldn't she just snoop around a little and cause all sorts of trouble? Couldn't she take the Sharpie marker from within the cup o' pens sitting...
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