I know that advertising is all about making you feel like there is a hole in your life, that you are inadequate, and that the advertised product is just the thing you didn’t know you even needed to make your life complete. I’m part of that machine in being a web and graphics production monkey. […]
After the May 23 shootings at UCSB, the community came together on many occasions to process and mourn. There was a candlelight vigil, a memorial in the soccer stadium, and rolling blackboards erected on campus for people to express themselves. Finals came and went, summer came and went. Arriving back on campus, there are still
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2014 has been an string of difficult health-related issues. Every time I would think that things couldn’t get worse, they would. As I was gasping for air in hopes of some relief, I was thinking that if I were Jewish, the “year” would soon be over. I’m so ready for 5774 to be done! It
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We are exposed to poetry from the moment we are born. Lullabys and nursery rhymes are poetry of some sort. We are initially led to believe that poetry rhymes in iambic pentameter. We digest Dr Seuss books in his unique poetic phrasing. I had to memorize Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The annual Lotusland fundraiser was called Once Upon a Time. It was a fairytale based extravaganza with as many people preparing, serving, and acting, as there were attending. When we arrived, trays of cocktails were available: wine, champagne, martinis, lady slippers. Yum. “Stations” of fairytales were interspersed in the garden where kids, teens and adults
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