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I’ve been relegating my writing efforts to a.) my creative nonfiction manuscript, b.) crafting resumes in pursuit of employment, and c.) drafting my MFA application stuff. I am not sure if / when the blogging will continue. For now, I would say that the yetispeak… is in an “inactive” status–until further notice. In the past…
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When I moved the blog from Typepad to WordPress I gave it the byline: the journey there…and back again. You might remember that phrase from The Lord of the Rings. It seemed to sum up my life pretty succinctly. I feel like the human boomerang. Thrown across the ocean only to arc backwards and bounce…
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I’m convinced that monster.com must have one of the best advertising companies around. The reason I think this is because they tend to do really funny, thought-provoking TV commercials. I was just searching for a particular commercial I remembered from years ago when I realized that it, too, was also an Monster.com advertisement. You remember…
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Over the years some people have told me that I am a lot like Adam from Northern Exposure. I am not sure if they are referring to my attitude or appearance; I’m afraid perhaps it’s a little bit of both. Wikipedia calls Adam a “misanthropic recluse” who first appears as Cicely, Alaska’s equivalent to the…
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Over the years I’ve thought a lot about the saying, “It’s not about what you do but about who you are becoming…” I think I still hold to this view, but at times the two seem so interrelated it’s difficult to sift out one’s actions from one’s character / motives. A decision to do something,…
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This is the music I’ve been listening to lately. Enjoying them…. (As if you care!)
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We ushered in the Year of the Ox tonight with some good friends at our favorite local Chinese restaurant, Sichuan 99. Yeah, in case you missed it, today was Chinese New Year. I happen to have been born in the Year of the Ox so I am claiming this year as all mine. Watch out…
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In light of some of the things that have been going on with me the past couple months (years really), a friend recently recommended this book to me: Wow. It’s that massive elephant-on-the-couch question that has defined my generation, and by default me, more than any other. I’ve only read the first five or six…
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This book was amazing. I love the imaginative vision mixed with the cultural and historical research that Rice employs in order to bring the childhood Jesus to life. I engaged with this book more than I did with The Shack (another recent read), but that’s probably because Anne Rice is a writer’s writer and she…
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