FYI Jury Duty is Actually Great

(OK: it’s great unless someone died or was abused or some other traumatic event happened—that would be horrible and would make jury duty horrible. But in general, it rocks.) I was selected as a juror a few weeks back for a personal injury lawsuit. I served on the trial for five days. I thought I […]

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What I Learned From Landing—& Promptly Leaving—My Dream Job

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About a year ago, I left a manager and team I adored for what I thought was my dream job. I was wrong; it was very much not my dream job (let’s call it my “nightmare job”). Now, I genuinely don’t want this post to be a bash fest, but the 6-month period in which I […]

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3 Things You’ll Do After Your Wedding

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all photos by Leslie Cervantez Photography John and I tied the knot a few months ago, on October 25th, 2014 in Houston, Texas. Since I’ve known for a long time that I wanted to marry him, and since we’ve been talking about marriage since early in our relationship, and since John planned the whole wedding and […]

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