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Category: Essay

  • Essay

I Used to Cross the Galaxy for Donuts

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

I used to cross the galaxy for donuts- used to cover more ground in a day around LA than some people do in a month- used to write articles, short stories, and novels in the time I spent last week barely able to stand.

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Our Responsibility

  • by nigelwalsh
  • Posted on July 29, 2019July 31, 2019

Our mainstream American culture is inundated with cheap, meaningless, and unoriginal storytelling, journalism, and commentary. I need my fellow citizens to be wise and informed to steer our nation into a dynamic future.

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Thursday Tales & My Rule of Thumb for Dating & Relationships

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on July 11, 2019July 11, 2019

For every rule don’t we know an exception?

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Etiquette & Empathy – Learn the Former, Strive for the Latter

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on June 27, 2019

in life and on the stage manners as a set of edicts will carry us well enough. You’ll be able to amble through a scene effectively enough by following the flow chart of what to say and when. However, to really get at something special? That takes listening. It takes patience and understanding.

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Getting Back in the Habit – The Ongoing Depressive Hurdle

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on June 18, 2019June 26, 2019

This isn’t another post about discipline, or work ethic. I said yesterday that I know what I have to do. This is a post about a depression.

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Personal Update – Israel Vacation & The Long Summer Ahead

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on May 30, 2019May 30, 2019

It’s interesting enough seeing all the religious sites and history associated with Israel , but it’s so much more wonderful and impactful seeing them in the context of a living, thousands years old city with day to day life through it.

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Lost – a Never Novella Review

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on April 18, 2019April 18, 2019

“All children, except one, grow up, and for the rest it remains tough going.” An…

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The Sexiest Thing You Can Wear

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019

You are the hero of your story. Dress for the part. Play it too.

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WTF Cosmo? – The Villainous Narrator

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 4, 2019March 4, 2019

We have an unwarranted tendency to automatically trust whoever’s leading the narrative on the pages we’re turning or at the epicenter of the drama unfolding.

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Personality Tests & The Zodiac – Not a Portrait, a Road Map

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019

Say if you’re a Gryffindor, it means you can be brave and bold, but sometimes we’re Neville Longbottom and need to rise to that occasion and grow into that.

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