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Last year my mom gave me a book of coupons that had all expired on Halloween.

If you ever end up with gift cards you don't want, sell them on Cardpool.com or Raise.com. For some reason, a relative of mine always gives my family a Red Lobster gift card for Christmas even though there isn't a restaurant near me, so I usually sell it on one of those sites for… Read More

The best friends I have made as an adult are much older women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. I met them at work and at church, and they all kind of adopted me. As a woman in her 20s, it seemed really uncool and weird at first for me to spend my free time with them given the age gap.… Read More

Don't forget Boring, Oregon and Desolation Sound in BC!

One time when I was a teenager, I was in line at Walmart with my dad when all of a sudden he let out this loud sigh of relief. A cyst behind his ear had popped and he had a ton of the pus from it on his hands. Rather than run to the bathroom in horror, my dad proudly showed the cashier… Read More

I first read "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank in the fourth grade, which I think is roughly when I started to show early signs of depression. No one told me what to expect when I started the story we all know of her heartbreaking years in hiding and death. It was, of course,… Read More

My roommate freshman year allowed a homeless guy she met at a concert to sleep on the floor between our beds. I had to step over his body when I woke up.

And I knew just as surely, just as clearly, that life is not a work of art, and that the moment could not last. - A River Runs Through It