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Back Again: Returning To That “Never Again” Place
You can never go home again. I think nearly everyone has heard a version of that statement. Well, this place wasn’t home to me, but I lived there for years and it represented the future, potential, dreams, freedom and so … Continue reading
Posted in Family, home, Journal, Life, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts, travel
Tagged closure, college, contentment, friends, going home, graduate school, LA, Los Angeles, past, peace, reconnecting, reflection, regret, what if
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LA – Here We Come!
I am so excited! And nervous, but mostly excited. I left Los Angeles almost eight years ago. And I never thought I would ever go back, with good reason. But now there is a conference and to be honest the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, home, Journal, Life, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts, travel
Tagged closure, college, friends, going home, graduate school, Los Angeles, past, reconnecting
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The Return
It was early in the morning, just after 5:00, on October 12, 2008, when I said goodbye to Los Angeles, and the last two plus years of my life. I didn’t want to leave, but I needed to leave. It … Continue reading
Posted in Family, home, Journal, Life, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts, travel
Tagged "mental health", abuse, abusive relationship, adulting, closure, college, danger, double life, fear, friends, going home, graduate school, healthy choices, Los Angeles, Nebraska, need versus want, past, reckoning, risk
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Confessions Of A Bookaholic: Guilty Pleasure Edition #83 – Fear Street Presents… Fear Hall
Fear Hall was a Fear Street anomaly. It was a special two-part series within the original Fear Street. Unlike trilogies or stories and their sequels this was just one story that was so long R.L. Stine broke it up into … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, fiction, Guilty Pleasures, Reviews
Tagged "book review", "r.l. stine", "reading list", "Serial Killer", book, college, fear street, friends, guilty pleasure, murder, nervous breakdown, out of touch with reality, psychosis, reading, special two-parter, suspense
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Confessions Of A Bookaholic – Guilty Pleasures Edition #67 – Sweet Valley High #61 – Boy Trouble
I’d be lying if I said this book was special, but it is one of only two Sweet Valley High books so far to focus on a racial minority, so that’s something. We’ve already seen Sweet Valley High’s token Asian, … Continue reading