June 2025
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I am standing at the platform, bruised and bored. It took a while, but the conductor finally caught up to me, and I was ejected from You Have Your Whole Life to Live. That was a local train, with overnight stops in Self-Absorption, Victimhood, and White Girl Wasted-ville. In the ensuing brouhaha, the conductor and…
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Not everyone is good at taking tests. I am. Very good.Years of state-sponsored testing in public schools, my private school experience in high school, SAT prep courses, my relentless need for validation,[^1] and my natural competitive streak all combined to create a mind that can destroy a multiple-choice test like how a joint Mafia-CIA operation…
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MUSINGS I never listened to Fleetwood Mac before moving to Augusta, GA. In my early CSRA years, Jackie—my best friend, who died in a car accident I still blame myself for, even though I wasn’t there, which is why I blame myself—wasn’t surprised by my reaction to the opening riff of The Chain. Once the…
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