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Poison Dart Frog
I wish I was a poison dart frog so I may sit on a tiny leaf as rain softly falls around me. To climb a moss-covered tree, feeling the slight give from the moist organism with every step I take. To watch droplets loll down as they gain enough weight…
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Back in the Saddle
So I clearly fell off again. This is my first time back on the site since my last post on February 25, 2024, and lo & behold, I have not done much to realize my goals. That is not to say I have done nothing. I simply haven’t maintained focus…
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It takes 10 years…
To become an overnight success. Recently, several artists & creators I enjoy have been celebrated and lauded in powerful ways and have seen their dreams realized. What I have noticed is that these folks have been in the game for over a decade and are now getting the flowers and…
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Hopes for the Future
I need to get real and honest about what I’m doing and why I’m here. 6 months from now, by the end of May 2024, I will be fluent in B1 Spanish, and I will be healthier. I will have amassed 20K followers across my social media platforms. I will…
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Goals, Goals, Goals
Trying to ensure this time isn’t wasted. I have to do everything possible to change my life. One year, better opportunities for me, my brothers, and my pups. This is going to be difficult, but I plan to be consistent as much as possible. It’s the only way change will…
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Something Wicked in the Water
This past weekend, early Sunday morning around 5:45am, I was attacked while walking home. I had been out for the evening with friends and we rode in a taxi altogether. We separated at a common stop for all of this and my walk was only 10 minutes. Normally, my neighborhood…
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Lost, but not Aimless
I have now been in Spain for almost two months. It doesn’t feel real to say that, but at the same time, I feel like I have been here forever. I do not know what I am doing yet, but I know that I am headed on the path I…
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The Grift Goes On
Somehow, I was placed in a Spanish A2 course at the end of the unit, one week before the students were to test into B1. If you do not know, A-levels are beginner, and B is intermediate. By some wild fluke, I, a person that should be in late A1…
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Once an Overachiever…
I am currently writing this while sitting in my empty classroom, listening in to the virtual lesson of the substitute. The classroom is empty because my professor let the class know that he would be absent today. I am on a zoom call because he also said we needed to…
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Life Abroad
I have been living overseas for about two weeks now. It still doesn’t quite feel real, as I have been living in a hotel the entire time so far. The search for housing has been harder than I had initially imagined, but I am choosing to remain hopeful that a…
Dimples on the Edge 